FRENCH DEPUTY SAYS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AND HOLOCAUST ESSENCE

Yerkir.am
May 12, 2006

In an interview with the Turkish daily Sabah, Didie Migo, a Solicits
member of the French National Assembly and sponsor of a bill penalizing
the denial of the Armenian Genocide, said he continues to support
the bill.

“I have no intention to teaching lessons of ethics to the Turks,”
Migo was quoted as saying. “But I don’t share the opinion of the
French deputies who oppose the bill.”

As reported by the Noyan Tapan, Migo said the bill is the continuation
of the 2001 French law recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

He also said historians will still be free to make their assessments
and that the French courts should be trusted in evaluating the
difference between denial and assessments.

Comparing the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, the French lawmaker
said: “For us there is no difference because there is no difference
between the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide, both were the
same in essence, and it is incomprehensible why Turkey continues to
deny the fact of the Genocide.

This is an indisputable fact. It is, indeed, hard for a nation to
admit that their grandfathers committed unjust acts in the past.”