ARGENTINA PASSES LAW DECLARING ARMENIAN DEATHS A "GENOCIDE"
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Dec 14 2006
Matthew Borghese – All Headline News Staff Writer Buenos Aires,
(AHN) – Argentina has passed a bill labeling the mass killings of
Armenians in Turkey a "genocide."
The Argentinean Senate has unanimously voted to mark April 24 as
an annual day commemorating the deaths which occurred around the
time of World War I, and remain a sensitive subject for the modern
Turkish government.
The issue has been receiving recent attention after the French National
Assembly approved a bill making it a crime to deny calling the deaths
a genocide. However, the bill, passed in October, still needs to pass
through the French Senate and President.
French President Chirac has opposed the bill, while Turkish Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan has also spoken out against both bills.