A TRIAL LAUNCHED IN SWITZERLAND AGAINST ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIER TURKISH NATIONALIST

PanARMENIAN.Net
06.03.2007 19:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A trial launched in Switzerland towards leader of
Turkish Labor Party Doðu Perincek, who is blamed for racism, since he
had called the Armenian Genocide an "international lie". Prosecutors
demand to sentence Perincek to 6-month imprisonment.

In case if a verdict of guilty is brought towards Doðu Perincek,
he will become the first person convicted by Swiss anti-racist law
for denying the Armenian Genocide. In 2001 a court in Bern acquitted
12 Turks, who were being prosecuted by this very article. Today on
the square near the Court building some 150 people gathered in red
bandages on their heads with Turkish banners, they expressed their
silent support to Doðu Perincek. Perincek himself is sure that he
will be freed. "I don’t think that I will be convicted," he stated,
confessing that Armenians were exposed to massacres in his homeland. At
the same time he refused to recognize those massacres as genocide,
RFA RL reports.

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