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  • ANKARA: Belgium Discusses 'Penalizing Genocide Denial'

    Zaman, Turkey
    May 12 2006

    Belgium Discusses 'Penalizing Genocide Denial'
    By Vedat Denizli, Brussels
    Published: Friday, May 12, 2006
    zaman.com


    A legislative proposal similar to the bill pending at the French
    parliament that would criminalize denial of the so-called Armenian
    genocide is trying to make its way onto the agenda of the Belgium
    Senate.

    In the new bill presented to the Senate, Francois Roelands du Vivier
    and Christine Defraigne, senators of the joint government party
    Reform Movement (MR), suggested the so-called Armenian genocide be
    considered within the framework of the Holocaust Law and that those
    who deny the so-called genocide be punished with one year
    imprisonment and fined about 5,000.

    The Belgium Parliament had shelved similar bills and various
    proposals after discussions last year.

    Fatma Pehlivan, the only Turkish member of the Belgium Senate, told
    Zaman that MR members continuously attempt to keep the so-called
    Armenian genocide fresh on the agenda.

    Pehlivan emphasized the bill's acceptance is impossible, and a
    general assembly approval is difficult even it passes in the
    commission.
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