FRENCH PARTY URGES ~@45 000 FINE FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
29.09.2006 15:02 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The French Socialist Party (PS) has brought up
again a draft bill, which will penalize the denial of the Armenian
Genocide, to the agenda of the French Parliament. The draft bill,
which will bring up to a year’s imprisonment and a fine of up to ~@45
000 for those who deny the Genocide, will be discussed and voted in
the French Parliament on October 12, in line with a proposal by the
party, reported Cihan news agency.
To note, the French Parliament passed the bill on the Armenian
Genocide recognition in 2001. 1.5 million Armenians living in the
Ottoman Empire were killed during World War I. Turkey denies this
fact claiming that 200,000 Armenians died during forced migrations
due to cold weather and bad transportation conditions.
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