AZG Armenian Daily #237, 20/12/2008

Genocides

DENIAL OF THE GENOCIDE IS A PUNISHABLE OFFENCE IN THE TERRITORY OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION

Similar decision was made at the meeting of the EU member countries’
Ministers of Justice and Internal Affairs in November 2008.

According to the CNNTurk, after the meeting of the Ministers the
European Council made a decision to pass a bill criminalizing the
denial of the fact of Genocide. The law will be put into circulation
in the EU member countries in the course of two years.

According to the law, everyone who publicly denies the fact of the
Genocide and the crimes against the humanity will be sent to prison
for 1-3 years.

CNNTurk adds that the law imposes punishment on the denial of the
genocides that were committed after 1938; it does not embrace the
Armenian Genocide.

Translated by L.H.