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STREET ACTION IN PARIS: CCAF CALLS FOR DEMONSTRATION
http://www.armenianow.com/genocide/34651/france_armenian_genocide_criminalization_bill_ccaf
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The Coordination Council of Armenian organizations in France (CCAF)
is organizing a demonstration ahead of next weeks vote in the French
Senate on whether to criminalize genocide denial.
Last month the French National Assembly's supportive vote sent a bill
to the senate that - although not mentioning the Armenian Genocide
specifically - would make it punishable by law for any French subject
to claim that genocide never happened.
The senate is to vote January 23, starting deliberations at 2 p.m. in
Paris.
The Council has called the demonstration, in anticipation of there
also being a large pro-Turkey presence outside the senate.
"Encountering a propagandist campaign, in particular with hateful
accent, organized by powers against the bill and the fact that the
street will be occupied by those falsifying the history, we call on
the citizens, praising justice, to condemn denial, which kills the
victims for the second time and spreads hatred and fanaticism. We must
say no to denial, racism and xenophobia," says the Council's statement.
http://www.armenianow.com/genocide/34651/france_armenian_genocide_criminalization_bill_ccaf
Feature photoGalleryGenocideGenocide | 16.01.12 | 12:36
The Coordination Council of Armenian organizations in France (CCAF)
is organizing a demonstration ahead of next weeks vote in the French
Senate on whether to criminalize genocide denial.
Last month the French National Assembly's supportive vote sent a bill
to the senate that - although not mentioning the Armenian Genocide
specifically - would make it punishable by law for any French subject
to claim that genocide never happened.
The senate is to vote January 23, starting deliberations at 2 p.m. in
Paris.
The Council has called the demonstration, in anticipation of there
also being a large pro-Turkey presence outside the senate.
"Encountering a propagandist campaign, in particular with hateful
accent, organized by powers against the bill and the fact that the
street will be occupied by those falsifying the history, we call on
the citizens, praising justice, to condemn denial, which kills the
victims for the second time and spreads hatred and fanaticism. We must
say no to denial, racism and xenophobia," says the Council's statement.