The official version of Armenia's bloody 2008 post-election unrest, strongly disputed by opposition leaders and human rights campaigners, has been controversially included in a new history textbook for state-run universities.
The textbook approved by the Ministry of Education and published this year blames opposition groups for the March 1-2, 2008 violence in Yerevan, which left ten people dead and more than 150 others injured.
It contends that the violence erupted after "demonstrators started attacking police forces" and that both sides used firearms in vicious clashes in downtown Yerevan. In an apparent reference to Levon Ter-Petrosian, the main opposition candidate in the February 2008 presidential election, it says "the leader and organizers of the riots" urged the protesters to loot shops and set cars on fire.
Armenian News 
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