Reply #10: Genocide Denial Bill Passes in France! Wow! [View All]

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Check out this article:

Genocide Denial Bill Passes in France
By EMMANUEL GEORGES-PICOT (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
October 12, 2006 5:41 AM EDT
PARIS - French lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill making it a crime to deny that mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during and after World War I amounted to genocide.

Deputies in the National Assembly voted 106-19 for the bill, which has prompted outrage in Turkey and embarrassed the French government. The issue has become intertwined with Turkey's efforts to join the
European Union.

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The French bill would recognize the killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 to 1919 as genocide, and those who contest a genocide would risk up to a year in prison and fines of up to $56,000.


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French governing party lawmaker Patrick Devedjian responded at Thursday's session by saying, "Turkey has no lesson to teach us about the repression of opinion."

http://enews.earthlink.net/channel/news/print?guid=20061012/452dbdc0_3421_13345200610121617642734

This probably won't be signed into law but it sure sends a message about the genocide to Turkey. And we forbid our embassadors from saying it WAS a genocide. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?