THE PARLIAMENT RECOGNIZES THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Stockholm News
March 11 2010
Sweden
The massacre of Armenians and other ethnic groups in 1915 was a
genocide. This the Swedish Parliament decided with least possible
margin on Thursday evening. By a vote of 131 to 130 the opposition’s
reservations became victorious over the committee’s proposal. For this
to be possible required four centre-right members to vote against their
own parties. This was done by two members of the Liberal Peoples party,
one from the Christian Democrats and one maverick MP who formerly
belonged to the Moderates.
The government’s line was to not classify the massacre of, among
others, Assyrians and Armenians as genocide as it should not be up
to politicians to write history.
David Jonasson
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