AZG Armenian Daily #115, 23/06/2005

Armenian Genocide

THOSE DENYING THE GENOCIDE TO FACE TRIAL

German-Armenian lawyer Stepan Tashchian submitted a petition to start a
legal action against Berlin’s Turkish community. Tashchian said over the
phone that during the rally in central Berlin on June 19 (German public TV
counted 1.500 participants) the protesters carried insulting banners,
distributed leaflets urging not to distort history and chanted that what
happened to Armenians in 1915 was not a genocide as it was not organized by
the state, thus it cannot be defined as genocide. This very statement made
Tashchian turn to the police official supervising the rally. Allegedly the
trial will begin in 2-3 months. The 130th article of German Penal Code and
the 189th article of Civil Code administers punishment and fine for the
aforesaid actions, Stepan Tashchian said.

By Anahit Hovsepian in Germany