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    157,000 Germans want the government to criminalize the denial of the
    Armenian Genocide

    armradio.am
    07.07.2012 14:21

    Nearly 157,000 Germans want the government to pass a law which would
    make it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman
    Turks nearly a century ago was genocide, according to the results of
    an online poll conducted as part of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's
    strategy to bring the German government closer to the people, Reuters
    reports.

    Merkel rejected the proposal in a discussion this week with some of
    the poll participants, sayin that such a move - already attempted by
    France - would badly harm relations with Turkey, a key trade partner.

    Merkel also turned down a call for holding more critical debates about
    Islam, a politically sensitive issue in Germany which is home to
    around four million Muslims.

    The online poll is part of an ongoing government initiative called
    "Dialogue on the Future" that aims to get ordinary Germans thinking
    about how to improve life in Germany.




    From: A. Papazian
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