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ARMENIA THREATENS SEVERE FINES FOR GENOCIDE UNBELIEVERS
By Suleyman Kurt, Ankara
Zaman Online, Turkey
Oct 12 2006
As the French Parliament is preparing to vote on a bill to penalize
the rejection of the purported Armenian genocide Thursday, the Armenian
Parliament passed a similar bill this week.
The parliament made a series of amendments to the Armenian Penal Code,
Armenia's Yerkir News Agency said.
"Penalizing the genocide" is also among the amendments.
Terming the 1915 incidents as genocide, Yerevan set the penalty for
those who "deny the genocide" as a minimum fine of 100 to 300 times
the minimum wage in Armenia or a prison sentence up to four years.
Authorities state this is the first such law in Armenia.
Pointing out it is not a crime in Turkey to say "I recognize the
Armenian genocide" yet similar cases were opened for "insulting
Turkishness," authorities said no Armenian historian would be able to
reject the "genocide" if they should join the joint history commission
proposed by Ankara.
By Suleyman Kurt, Ankara
Zaman Online, Turkey
Oct 12 2006
As the French Parliament is preparing to vote on a bill to penalize
the rejection of the purported Armenian genocide Thursday, the Armenian
Parliament passed a similar bill this week.
The parliament made a series of amendments to the Armenian Penal Code,
Armenia's Yerkir News Agency said.
"Penalizing the genocide" is also among the amendments.
Terming the 1915 incidents as genocide, Yerevan set the penalty for
those who "deny the genocide" as a minimum fine of 100 to 300 times
the minimum wage in Armenia or a prison sentence up to four years.
Authorities state this is the first such law in Armenia.
Pointing out it is not a crime in Turkey to say "I recognize the
Armenian genocide" yet similar cases were opened for "insulting
Turkishness," authorities said no Armenian historian would be able to
reject the "genocide" if they should join the joint history commission
proposed by Ankara.