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    FRANCE EASILY FORGOT VICHY HORROR
    By Foreign News Desk

    Zaman, Turkey
    Oct 16 2006

    Backlash against the French National Assembly's approval of a bill
    on Thursday, which makes it crime to deny that an Armenian genocide
    occurred during World War I, continues.

    In an opinion piece defending free speech in the British newspaper
    The Observer, the author characterized the French National Assembly's
    passing of the Armenian bill as "wrong and bad," and commented that
    the French had so easily forgotten the horror of the Vichy regime.

    The commentary spoke of author Carmen Callil, who wrote a book about
    the agony the Jews suffered during the Vichy regime, and France's
    subsequent convenient amnesia.

    Before attempting to pass genocide denial laws in an atmosphere
    of censorship, the French should have to remember their previous
    cooperation with the Nazi party in deporting Jews, the newspaper said.

    The commentary added that the Armenian bill was also aimed to
    "complicate" Turkey's EU accession; a dreadful attitude for France
    to assume while believing that their acts were "irreproachable"
    during World War II.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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