Last month, the French Senate approved a controversial bill with a 127-86 vote that makes it a criminal offence to deny that genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I. | French politicians, from both the Senate and the lower house of parliament, who opposed the law, have referred it to France€™s Constitutional court. An interested reader may recall that in 2010 a U.S.
Like Jolie, he is passionate and involved in numerous humanitarian campaigns, like Not On Our Watch, trying to prevent genocide in Dafur, a team effort with his Ocean's Eleven cast mates George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Don Cheadle.
Vardan Torosyan: According to the Jewish activist, those measures that are used against the denial of the Shoah [Jewish Holocaust] can be used in the case of the Armenian Genocide , too. For the sake of brotherhood and the suffering that the Armenians underwent...
A group of French senators will pay a visit to Baku. | On 5 February, a group of French senators who appealed to the French Constitution to abolish the bill criminalizing the denial of genocides will pay a visit to Baku at the invitation of the Azerbaijani State Committee for Work with Diaspora. | Goy Gol, Gance is one of the major Tourist Attractions in Gance that is widely frequented by visitors from all over the world.
Despite the extensive corpus of academic research and archival material proving the reality of the genocide, the Turkish Republic has until now refused to formally recognize the genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.
As French lawmakers debated a proposal to outlaw denial of the Armenian genocide last month, Mr. Erdogan was splashed across the Turkish front pages saying he'd never visit France again if the law were enacted. Mr. Erdogan has not been invited...
The peace process ended up in mass-scale genocide of Eelam Tamils, in which nearly 140000 Eelam Tamils went unaccounted. A committee appointed by the Norwegian government to evaluate the peace process came out with the finding, criticizing those...
This YouTube video of the British writer Douglas Murray at the Cambridge Union last March has suddenly gone viral. It's not surprising. It is a magnificent put down of all those who dismiss the mortal threat posed by Iran's nuclear programme. Given the lethal and amoral idiocy of those who are currently indifferent to the genocidal threat posed by Iran to the State of Israel in particular, this is a must-see.
Nicodemus IKonko: Arusha, February 2, 2012 (FH) - Human Rights Watch has slammed the UN-African Union special representative in Darfur for socializing with ICC-wanted genocide suspect President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan, and called for the UN to take action.
They were sent away to schools that have been accused of being part of a plan of cultural genocide . Many children also suffered physical, sexual and emotional abuse. In 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper formally apologized for the schools...
On the one hand, we see the Ahmadiyya community being targeted while on the other there is a Shia genocide going on in Pakistan. Banned terrorist outfits like the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) operate freely inside...
In the 63 years since the United Nations adopted a genocide convention in the wake of the Holocaust, world leaders have failed to prevent the deaths of millions, from Biafra and Cambodia to Rwanda and Darfur — not just because they have lacked...
Hamill, Canadian Stuart Glass and Englishman John Dewhirst were on the yacht Foxy Lady when it went off course, possibly due to a storm, and came to a small island in Cambodian waters. The men took shelter there, but were discovered and later killed by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. | Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court today rejected the appeal by Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing Guek Eav "Duch"
"The first and foremost issue for the Dalai Lama is to stop the cultural genocide of Tibetans inside of Tibet, like our language. You can't teach Tibetan in schools anymore and there is no religious freedom. We want an independent Tibet that our...
Almost 20 years after the Rwandan genocide, natives of that Central African country are looking to the next generation to help reconcile its still divided population. And they're not just looking within their own borders; they're reaching out to local youth such as Meryl Parks, a junior at Presentation High School.
Dear Supporters of Dictatorship In Azerbaijan... | February 16, 2010 - NHC Report: "Nakhchivan: Azerbaijan's Dark Island" | 1) The Foreign Affairs Committee condemns the occupation of Azerbaijani lands and the genocide committed by the Armenian armed forces on February 26, 1992 against the civilian population of the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly.
The Foreign Relations Committee of Senate has condemned the occupation of Azerbaijan territories by Armenia and the genocide committed by Armenian armed forces in the Azerbaijan town of Khojaly on February 26, 1992 against civilian population.
Several weeks ago the French Senate passed a law, making the denial of the genocide against the Armenians a criminal offense. An enraged Turkey roundly condemned the French decision and threatened to take appropriate countermeasures.
French lawmaker Valerie Boyer, architect of the controversial bill criminalizing denial of Armenian €œgenocide,€ expressed her disappointment the bill was taken to the Constitutional Council and said she will fight to the end for this cause. €œEven if this is not a surprise, I am disappointed to see that some parliamentarians prefer legalism to humanism,€ Boyer, from the ranks of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)
Kianga Kelley | Reporter: Today, the stories still have an impact. More than 900 students at North Lenoir High School Wednesday listened to the stories of Carl Wilkens. Wilkens is the only American to stay in Rwanda, despite then-President Bill Clinton's orders. Wilkens' choice to stay is said to have helped save hundreds of children. | "I was excited. It's not often you get to speak to somebody who witnessed Genocide first hand and was really there,"
In France, it could have been difficult to send the €œArmenian genocide denial law€ to the French Constitutional Council, but there was a probability. It was certainly not expected to be sent with so many signatures.The signatures of only 60 senators would have been sufficient. At first, signatures arrived with difficulty. Then, suddenly, numbers soared. Seventy-seven senators and additionally 65 parliamentarians signed.
Vardan Torosyan: ACC aims to coordinate national public-political activities of the Armenian organizations and private sectors in the Region in connection to the approaching hundredth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in Turkey and other issues...
Uong Ratana: Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, pictured last month at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, took the stand at the ECCC yesterday. Under questioning from senior assistant co-prosecutor Tarik Abdhulhak, Youk Chhang said that since...
Generally speaking the Turkish media was in a joyous mood yesterday, following a motion by a group of French legislators to annul the French Senate€™s approval of a law criminalizing denial that the Armenian killings of 1915 in the last years of the Ottoman Empire was a genocide.77 members of the French Senate and 65 members of the Parliament signed letters to the Constitutional Council claiming that the law, supported...
The president's failure to fire them after the unraveling of the “ genocide ” that has rocked the country by Mr. Alfred Woyome and his collaborators from the National Democratic Congress government clearly shows that he is at his lowest in fighting...
The USC Institute of Armenian Studies€™ Leadership Council will honor the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, established by legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg, for championing the Armenian Genocide Digitization Project, at a gala banquet to be held on April 15 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.