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Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Jan 27 2012
Bosnia urges Paris on `Bosnian genocide bill'
SARAJEVO / PARIS - Anatolia News Agency
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Parliament will suggest to the French Senate
that it approve a bill criminalizing anyone who denies the mass
killings of Bosnians during the 1990s war amounted to genocide, said a
deputy.
`This genocide is approved by the international courts and it would be
meaningful for France to approve it rather than dealing with issues
that are not proved by historians or experts,' Party of Democratic
Action (SDA) deputy Safet KeÅ?o told Anatolia news agency, referring to
the French bill recently approved by the French Senate penalizing the
denial of Armenian genocide allegations. KeÅ?o has prepared a bill to
be sent to the French Senate demanding the penalization of the denial
of the `Bosnian genocide in Srebrenica during the 1990s.' The draft
bill was approved Jan. 25 by the House of Representatives of Bosnia,
one of the two chambers of Bosnia's Parliament.
KeÅ?o said their bill request would be an opportunity to test the
principles of the French Senate. After approving the genocide bill on
the Armenian issue, the French Senate should approve their bill, too,
as they had all been a witness to the killings in Bosnia, KeÅ?o said.
January/27/2012
Jan 27 2012
Bosnia urges Paris on `Bosnian genocide bill'
SARAJEVO / PARIS - Anatolia News Agency
Bosnia and Herzegovina's Parliament will suggest to the French Senate
that it approve a bill criminalizing anyone who denies the mass
killings of Bosnians during the 1990s war amounted to genocide, said a
deputy.
`This genocide is approved by the international courts and it would be
meaningful for France to approve it rather than dealing with issues
that are not proved by historians or experts,' Party of Democratic
Action (SDA) deputy Safet KeÅ?o told Anatolia news agency, referring to
the French bill recently approved by the French Senate penalizing the
denial of Armenian genocide allegations. KeÅ?o has prepared a bill to
be sent to the French Senate demanding the penalization of the denial
of the `Bosnian genocide in Srebrenica during the 1990s.' The draft
bill was approved Jan. 25 by the House of Representatives of Bosnia,
one of the two chambers of Bosnia's Parliament.
KeÅ?o said their bill request would be an opportunity to test the
principles of the French Senate. After approving the genocide bill on
the Armenian issue, the French Senate should approve their bill, too,
as they had all been a witness to the killings in Bosnia, KeÅ?o said.
January/27/2012