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France approves draft law criminalising genocide denial
The lower house of the French parliament has approved a bill making it illegal to deny genocide. The move has angered Turkey, which denies French claims that the Ottoman Turks' mass killing of Armenians in 1915 was a genocide.
By News Wires (text)
REUTERS - France's lower house of parliament approved a bill on Thursday that would make it a criminal offence to deny genocide, in a move that has caused tension between Paris and Ankara.
The bill has triggered outrage in Turkey as it would include the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Ottomon Turkey.
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The bill will next be put to the Senate, or upper house, for debate in 2012, with its backers hoping that it will be adopted before parliament takes a break at the end of February ahead of presidential elections.
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Wrong Info
It was not a genocide but a war situation. Dont the Frence people know the diferance.
I really think the French people should vote the current government OUT, just for there own sake. Time comes when no words are spoken & action is done.There will be no winners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
syed
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Genocide Denial
So, it will be against the law if your opinion differs from the States opinion. A sorry state of affairs in a democracy but which by this law makes it not a democracy. Move over North Korea, France will soon be bed buddies - How kozy?
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