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ARMENIA WELCOMES FRENCH ADOPTION OF GENOCIDE BILL
Monsters and Critics
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1687106.php/Armenia-welcomes-French-adoption-of-genocide-bill
Jan 24 2012
Moscow - Armenia welcomed on Tuesday France's adoption of a bill
making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered genocide at the
hands of Ottoman Turks.
'The day the law was accepted will be entered with golden letters
not only in the history books of Armenian-French friendship but also
in the chronicles of global human rights protection,' said Armenian
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan, according to local media.
A parliamentary spokesman in the Armenian capital Yerevan said he hoped
'many countries follow France's example.'
Under the legislation - which has greatly angered Turkey - people
who deny or 'outrageously minimize' genocides recognized by France
face a year's imprisonment and 45,000 euros (57,000 dollars) in fines.
France officially recognizes two genocides: the Nazi Holocaust of
Jews during World War II and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
Armenians in eastern Turkey between 1915 and 1917.
The country already has a law punishing Holocaust denial. The text
adopted Monday aims to extend the same sanctions to the Armenian
massacres, which a dozen countries have labelled a genocide.
From: A. Papazian
Monsters and Critics
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1687106.php/Armenia-welcomes-French-adoption-of-genocide-bill
Jan 24 2012
Moscow - Armenia welcomed on Tuesday France's adoption of a bill
making it a crime to deny that Armenians suffered genocide at the
hands of Ottoman Turks.
'The day the law was accepted will be entered with golden letters
not only in the history books of Armenian-French friendship but also
in the chronicles of global human rights protection,' said Armenian
Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan, according to local media.
A parliamentary spokesman in the Armenian capital Yerevan said he hoped
'many countries follow France's example.'
Under the legislation - which has greatly angered Turkey - people
who deny or 'outrageously minimize' genocides recognized by France
face a year's imprisonment and 45,000 euros (57,000 dollars) in fines.
France officially recognizes two genocides: the Nazi Holocaust of
Jews during World War II and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
Armenians in eastern Turkey between 1915 and 1917.
The country already has a law punishing Holocaust denial. The text
adopted Monday aims to extend the same sanctions to the Armenian
massacres, which a dozen countries have labelled a genocide.
From: A. Papazian