FAON: IT’S ABSURD THAT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE LAW AGAINST DENIAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.04.2007 14:37 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Federation of Armenian Organizations in the
Netherlands (FAON) has urgently requested the Dutch government
to not agree in Brussels with a directive criminalising denial and
trivializing of the genocide. The PanARMENIAN.Net journalist was told
in FAON that Federation’s call is grounded with the fact that the
Armenian Genocide is not included in the document. The FAON asks an
urgent consultation and requests meanwhile to not take irreversible
steps such as the approval of the European directives, if they would
imply such an exclusion. "The FAON finds it absurd and unacceptable,
that exactly this first great Genocide of the 20th century, which is
systematically denied by Turkey in line with the Turkish denialist
policy, would be excluded. Such a distinction between historical events
would mean a flagrant inequality and would be a big and unacceptable
contempt towards the destiny of the Armenians by Europe. Still
more than that, it shows Europe on its knees before the aggressive
denialist practices of Turkey and the umpteenth success by Turkey in
Europe for that denialist policy," says the FAON statement.