Margarit Derants: Artsakh people have gone through genocide, that is a simple truth

In “The Domed Umbrella”, I describe the war of 2020, but I describe it on three platforms, Artsakh writer Margarit Derants told Alpha News.

“The Diaspora-Artsakh-Armenia trinity is my biography and my destiny. Like every dignified Armenian, I take the collapse of this trinity very hard. In my book The Domed Umbrella, I describe the war of 2020, but I describe it on three platforms. I present what is happening in the Diaspora, in mother Armenia, and in Artsakh during the war. The book had an interesting fate; since I finished it in March, it was published in August, and during the presentation of the book, my dear Artsakh people were already crossing the Hakari Bridge. In those days, all cultural events were cancelled, but an exception was made for the presentation of my book because it was about Artsakh,” Derants said.

The writer emphasized that the people of Artsakh really went through the genocide.

“The people of Artsakh really went through the genocide. I’m not talking about this at the level of everyday conversations; I’m talking about this at the level of the press, which reported torture and massacres in the villages of Haterk, Arajadzor, and Khnkavan. No Armenian is pleased to talk about this, but the truth is like the sun. You cannot hide from it. And I am very surprised that our statesmen did not raise this topic in authoritative international bodies,” Derants concluded.