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    DESECRATED ARMENIAN MEMORIAL: "UNACCEPTABLE"

    NOUVELOBS.COM
    19.04.06 ¦ 14:08

    The League of the rights of the Man as well as Nicolas Sarkozy
    get indignant forbidden registrations found on the memorial of the
    Armenian genocide.

    On March 18th, French-Turkish associations against the memorial of
    the Armenian genocide scrolled(marched past) in Lyon ( AP)

    L e memorial of the Armenian genocide of Lyon was desecrated on Monday,
    bring back(report) two Armenian organizations in different communiques.

    " There was no genocide ", cries out a registration quoted at the same
    moment by the Committee of defence of the Armenian cause ( CDCA) and
    the council of coordination of the Armenian organizations of France
    ( CCAF). The association for the Memorial of Lyons of the Armenian
    genocide ( MLGA) raised a complaint on Tuesday against X to know the
    authors of the desecration undergone by the monument in some days
    of the inauguration fixed on April 24th, according to the president
    of MLGA.

    Remembrances

    Expressing their "indignation", both organizations wish that the
    authors of this desecration are found and judged.

    The CDCA asks besides that " everything is implemented(operated)
    to assure(insure) the safety(security) of the remembrances of next
    April 24th on the whole French territory ".

    The memorial of Lyon must be inaugurated on April 24th of this year,
    date in which is commemorated, every year, the Armenian genocide
    committed in Turkey in 1915.

    Indignant reactions

    The League of human rights ( LDH) expressed on Wednesday, April 19th
    " its indignation ".

    In a communique, the LDH calls back(reminds) " his(her,its) approval
    of the law of January 29th, 2001 by which France recognized publicly
    the Armenian genocide of 1915 and opposes to any attempt aiming at
    denying the horror of this crime against humanity ".

    Home secretary Nicolas Sarkozy judged for his part, on Wednesday,
    April 19th, "unacceptable" the registrations concerned the memorial.

    In a message sent on Wednesday to Jules Mardirossian, president of the
    Association for the memorial of Lyons, home secretary considers that
    " this crime of violence, expressing the negationism and the hatred,
    is unacceptable ".

    " His(her) author, or his authors, must be austerely punished by the
    justice of our country ", adds Nicolas Sarkozy, who assures(insures)
    the Armenian community of its " whole solidarity ". He reminds that "
    the Republic expressed herself with force, by the law of January 29th,
    2001 according to which: ' France recognizes publicly the Armenian
    genocide of 1915 ' ".

    So, asserts home secretary, " the authorities of the Republic will
    not accept that the law is scoffed ".

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