FRANCE EASILY FORGOT VICHY HORROR
By Foreign News Desk

Zaman, Turkey
Oct 16 2006

Backlash against the French National Assembly’s approval of a bill
on Thursday, which makes it crime to deny that an Armenian genocide
occurred during World War I, continues.

In an opinion piece defending free speech in the British newspaper
The Observer, the author characterized the French National Assembly’s
passing of the Armenian bill as "wrong and bad," and commented that
the French had so easily forgotten the horror of the Vichy regime.

The commentary spoke of author Carmen Callil, who wrote a book about
the agony the Jews suffered during the Vichy regime, and France’s
subsequent convenient amnesia.

Before attempting to pass genocide denial laws in an atmosphere
of censorship, the French should have to remember their previous
cooperation with the Nazi party in deporting Jews, the newspaper said.

The commentary added that the Armenian bill was also aimed to
"complicate" Turkey’s EU accession; a dreadful attitude for France
to assume while believing that their acts were "irreproachable"
during World War II.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress