Following on from last week’s passage of a bill by Parliament that will make denial of the Genocide illegal in France comes news from the BBC that a memorial to 1.5 million Armenians that died in Ottoman Turkey has been stolen. Given the timing of the two events it is believed that both are linked.
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Following on from Hrant Dink and other ethnic Armenians in Turkey denouncing a bill that will criminalize denial of the Armenian Genocide if it becomes law in France comes reaction from Orhan Pamuk.
Dissident Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Literature Prize, denounced a French bill that would make it a […]
By Nessuna
Tonight, the American University of Armenia (AUA) hosted a public lecture entitled “Is Democracy Advancing or Retreating in the World?†by Thomas Carothers. Among other things, Carothers is Vice President for International Politics and Governance at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Carothers also has significant experience in the fields […]
This time it’s for real, and I’m pleased to announce that Nessuna is back on this blog. For a moment I was worried given that she had initially said she would write again, but no new posts materialized. Anyway, soon we’ll have the start of a new batch of posts from her. Now, if only […]
On October 12, 2006 – French Parliament passed a bill criminalizing the denial of the fact, that the Ottoman Turkish Empire committed Genocide against Armenians in 1915. On the same date the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is indisputable, that Turkey should acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and bear the full consequences as stated by the International Law after a subsequent action at the International Criminal Court.
Hrant Dink, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2005
In a strange twist to news that France has passed a bill making denial of the Armenian Genocide a crime, ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink says that he is prepared to deny the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians to defend freedom of speech. […]
Tsitsernakaberd, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2006
Despite Turkish protests, PanArmenian.net reports that the lower house of the French Parliament has passed a bill making it a crime to deny the Armenian Genocide.
A total of 106 deputies voted in favor of the bill while 19 voted against, France Info radio […]
RFE/RL carries more on Hakob Hakobian, the Armenian MP recently arrested for hooliganism and armed assault. According to RFE/RL it looks likely that backroom deals will decide the MP’s fate rather than the rule of law. No surprise there, then.
Hakob Hakobian, a controversial parliamentarian who has spent threes days in custody for allegedly provoking a […]
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) has two articles dedicated to the murdered Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. In the first, Tom de Waal remembers the “defender of ordinary people’s rights.”
Some people who work in conflict zones have walked with death for so long that they seem untouched by it and only more alive. […]
Akhalkalaki, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Republic of Georgia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2002
RFE/RL reports on trouble brewing in Georgia’s mainly Armenian populated region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. After local elections were held in Armenia’s northern neighbour last week, hundreds of ethnic Armenian Georgian citizens rallied in Akhalkalaki before eventually seizing a local government building.
The group called United […]
