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FRENCH SENATE PASSES ARMENIAN "GENOCIDE" BILL
CRIENGLISH.com
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/01/24/2724s677643.htm
Jan 24 2012
China
French Senate on Monday passed a bill criminalizing the denial of the
controversial Armenian "genocide," which has caused tension between
Paris and Ankara.
Ankara froze political and military ties with France after the bill
was passed by French lower house of parliament in December.
The bill would impose a 45,000-euro (58,267 U.S. dollars) fine and a
year in jail on those guilty of denying that World War 1-era deaths
of over one million Armenians under the Ottoman rule amounted to
"genocide."
It was rejected on Wednesday by French Senate's Laws Commission and
some analysts had predicted most of the senators likely to oppose
the bill would abstain.
Turkey rejects the term "genocide," insisting that the Armenians were
victims of widespread chaos and governmental breakdown as the Ottoman
Empire collapsed before modern Turkey was created.
From: Baghdasarian
CRIENGLISH.com
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/01/24/2724s677643.htm
Jan 24 2012
China
French Senate on Monday passed a bill criminalizing the denial of the
controversial Armenian "genocide," which has caused tension between
Paris and Ankara.
Ankara froze political and military ties with France after the bill
was passed by French lower house of parliament in December.
The bill would impose a 45,000-euro (58,267 U.S. dollars) fine and a
year in jail on those guilty of denying that World War 1-era deaths
of over one million Armenians under the Ottoman rule amounted to
"genocide."
It was rejected on Wednesday by French Senate's Laws Commission and
some analysts had predicted most of the senators likely to oppose
the bill would abstain.
Turkey rejects the term "genocide," insisting that the Armenians were
victims of widespread chaos and governmental breakdown as the Ottoman
Empire collapsed before modern Turkey was created.
From: Baghdasarian