Genocide Bill Author Offers To Renew Attempts If Motion Is Rejected

GENOCIDE BILL AUTHOR OFFERS TO RENEW ATTEMPTS IF MOTION IS REJECTED

PanARMENIAN.Net
February 9, 2012 – 15:04 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The author of the bill criminalizing the Armenian
Genocide denial, Valerie Boyer offers to renew attempts if the draft
law gets rejected.

“I didn’t except such an acute reaction from some senators. The bill
reaffirms such global values as freedom, equality and fraternity,”
Boyer said in an interview with Nouvelles d’Armenie magazine.

“Media doesn’t seem to be interested in the issue as they keep
disclosing the opposing forces of the bill,” French MP said, dwelling
on media coverage of the Genocide bill.

Boyer is likely to contact President’s administration in event the
French Constitutional Council declares the bill unconstitutional.

Earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated his position,
calling on Turkey to face its history.

On January 23, the French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the
Armenian Genocide. If signed into law, the bill will impose a 45,000
euro fine and a year in prison for anyone in France who denies this
crime against humanity committed by the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey reacted furiously when the Senate approved the law, which
threatens with jail anyone in France who denies that the 1915 massacre
of Armenians by Ottoman Turk forces amounted to Genocide. Ankara
has already halted political and military cooperation with France
and was threatening to cut off economic and cultural ties if the law
took effect.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS