French adopt genocide-denial crime bill

French politicians today adopted a bill making it a crime to deny that mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during and after the Second World War amounted to genocide.

French adopt genocide-denial crime bill
Thu, 12 Oct, 2006 - 12:30

French politicians today adopted a bill making it a crime to deny that mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during and after the Second World War amounted to genocide.

Deputies in the National Assembly in Paris voted 106-91 for the bill, which had prompted outrage in Turkey and had embarrassed the French government.

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