French Lawmaker Introduces New Bill Criminalizing Genocide Denial

October 29, 2014 By administrator

PARIS—French Member of Parliament Valerie Boyer has introduced a new bill criminalizing public denial of the Armenian Genocide in France.

She said the document has been submitted to all the parliamentary institutions of France and over 40 members of parliament have already signed it.

Boyer recalled that on April 24 French President Francois Hollande promised to sign a resolution criminalizing the public denial of the Armenian Genocide if such a resolution is passed by the French National Assembly. Boyer is convinced that the president will fulfill his promise. She said the massacre of national minorities in the Middle East by ISIS fighters makes such a document extremely urgent. The lawmaker believes that if passed earlier, this document could prevent what is happening now in the Middle East.

Previously, Valerie Boyer introduced a similar bill, which the French National Assembly passed. However, the Constitutional Court deemed the bill unconstitutional and declined it.

France, Retailleau (UMP) opposed to Turkey’s accession to the EU

October 18, 2014 By administrator

The president of the UMP group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, objected Saturday to Turkey’s accession to Europe, showing his disagreement with the Prime Minister Manuel Valls he was asked about it on Thursday.
“I disagree with the Prime Minister who believes that the accession negotiations between Turkey and the European Union should continue. Yes has an association agreement with Turkey, no to Turkish accession to Europe, “the senator (…)

France MARSEILLE South curb CFC 2015 Armenian Genocide 2015

October 12, 2014 By administrator

Gathered around the three presidents, the organization presented Friday, Oct. 10 at the Church of Prado, ideas and some plans for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

From Toulouse to Menton, to Avignon, Marseille and Nice, the Armenians of southern France are already actively preparing 2015-Azad Balalas Kazandjian (FRA Dashnaksutyun), Simon Azilazian (JAF) and Jacques Donabedian (AGBU) discussed face Press the main lines of action of the CFC South from January 2015 Julien Harounyan (JAF) and Annie Stepanow were also on the rostrum.

“Until now, the presidency was divided between representatives of different associations. We opted for a collective presidency at the approach of the 100th anniversary of the Genocide of 1915, says Simon Azilizian. We will be assisted by a legal commission, headed by Master Levon Djolakian and logistics committee overseen by the apostolic scouts. One hundred years later, Simon Azilizian continues, Turkey is still in denial. It is expected that in France campaign promises on the recognition of the first genocide of the twentieth century is finally realized. “

“This year, the sacred union is required insists Azad Balalas-Kazandjian. We must show that the Armenians are more united than ever. “

“The legal issue of Genocide recognition is part of Marseille, said Jacques Donabedian. Despite the adverse decision of the Constitutional Council in 2012, we do not give up, we keep fighting. Advertising for Turkish Airlines is an action by the Turkish government to push through denial. It’s like a swastika in the back! We struggle against a state that develops arménophobe propaganda. “Head of Mission in 2015, Julien Harounyan must” coordinate and organize all actions. We want to create a project labeling and centralize all energies. There will be an exchange of projects and national gateways. The mission, Julien exposes Harounyan has the will to succeed in 2015 which will also be a militant year. There is a work of memory, advocacy and criminalization of the Armenian Genocide to achieve. We are already working closely with local and regional authorities.

April 24, 2015, all the bells of the churches of France will ring at 19 h 15 We want to achieve a space for the memory wall survivors.

Blue Cross is planning to plant 50 trees. Finally, in January, the JAF International organizes Amnesia with CSI (International Scientific Council) which will Marseille, “concludes Julien Harounyan in the introduction of a 100th anniversary will be rich in events and emotions.

Gilbert DULAC

Sunday, October 12, 2014,
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France: The wrath of the Eastern Christians, Kurds and Yezidis in the National Assembly

October 9, 2014 By administrator

Before the dramatic events that have marred the Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans, Syriacs, Yezidis and Kurds, for several years now, Syria and more recently in Iraq, the Armenian community of France gathered Tuesday, October 7th in the National Assembly for scream outrage at the call of the Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France (CCAF), soon joined by the Kurdish Democratic Council of France which resulted in its wake hundreds of Kurdish Yezidi and Assyrian-Chaldean, welcomed the applause of Armenians say stop to the barbarity of the Islamic State and denounce “the inaction of the international community” face of the dramatic situation in Kobanê.

Of numerous personalities from the political class and the voluntary sector have thus succeeded in the gallery of the Edouard Herriot up to about a little over 1,600 people determined, demanding weapons to the PKK and humanitarian support for survivors of Kobanê. The attitude of Turkey, accomplice of IE by its negligence and inaction to assist Kurdish fighters, has been widely criticized and booed by the protesters.

Among those present who were not raised at the forum, we could recognize François Bayrou (Modem), Henri Jibrayel (PS) -d’origine chaldéene- Assyrian-François Pupponi (PS) and François Rochebloine (UDI).

100 years after the 1915 genocide that has hit hard the Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans, Syriacs and Greeks (1916-1923), as saying all Christians in Turkey, history is repeating itself in Iraq and Syria under the hordes bloody Sunni Islamic state.

After Mosul, Aleppo, Kessab Kobanê, and the destruction of the Holy Martyrs memorial at Deir-ez-Zor, Supreme Criminal stage of the Armenian Genocide, the madness of the IU raises worldwide anger and indignation. That’s what came to tell the elect of the Republic of France diasporic communities expressing their anger, while at the same time the Turkish police charged the Kurdish community in Diyarbakir killing 18, while Erdogan said he was supposedly supports the creation of a buffer zone between Syria and Turkey during a telephone conversation with President Holland.

After a preliminary presentation of the expected speakers Harout Mardirossian (CDCA) left the floor to co-president Mourad Papazian CFC. In his opening speech of the rally, the latter heavily denounced “barbaric jihadists who both Iraq and Syria aim to spread terror among the population in the slaying. The horror of the Islamic state is unbearable and it is in the union of the Armenians, Kurds, Assyrian-Chaldeans, Yezidis and Christians of the East, we must condemn the court of public opinion and states. “Has he said. Then hammering “the goal is to install the jihadists in Iraq and Syria ultra-Islamist and fascist regimes. And in this context, the Turkish government pretended to want to fight, but the reality is quite different. Ankara is home to jihadists, drives the jihadists, finance jihadists. The goal of Turkey is to take advantage of the situation, not to fight the Islamic state, but to weaken the Kurdish and get rid of Armenians and Christians. Ankara is using the conflict and subcontracts jihadists elimination of Armenians and Armenian any traces in Syria. We have seen in making Kessab and blasting the Church and the memorial at Deir-ez-Zor, a symbol of the Armenian Genocide. Deir Zor is the Auschwitz of the Armenians!. “Continuing his remarks, Mourad Papazian insisted:” Turkey is not a reliable ally. , We know that it is not possible to trust him! While the Turks might intervene militarily to prevent jihadists seize Kobanê, we find that they promote their advanced preventing Kurds from Turkey to strengthen the ranks of the resistance Daesh. “ Finally, to conclude, Mourad Papazian called for the intensification of the anti-Jihad fight, calling the coalition to organize a ground intervention, the only way to push back the forces of evil and occupation. “

For Valerie Boyer (UMP) ‘if genocide was to take place today, it will be because the Armenian genocide was not prevented or punished those responsible! “. She also outraged over the destruction of the Church of Deir ez-Zor, “the Auschwitz of the Armenians,” said she said, pointing to the double game of Turkey.

The representative of CRIF, Gil Taieb, for his part, speaking on behalf of the Jewish people and exclaimed: “Today you should know that you are not alone,” he “will have to continue, talking, screaming. We’ll have around us to explain that no one can rest easy, knowing that somewhere in this world there are men and women who weep, who are massacred, abducted and murdered! “

The homage of the French Cinémathèque Jacques Kébadian

September 28, 2014 By administrator

Friday night, the French Cinémathèque has made a tribute to filmmaker Jacques Kébadian where three short films and a feature film were presented to a packed house.

Armenia 1900: Through an imaginary child figure, portrait of Armenia before the genocide of 1915 from an iconography of old postcards from the collection of the CRDA (1981).

Blotter: Where the world Aida. As always serious and sweet little characters, arrested in a dreamy stillness, caught in a kind of eternity haunted by the most ordinary everyday. “(Michel Nurisdany) – 1979.

Five sisters: Like a modern Scheherazade, the director’s mother painting galore, to overcome boredom, captivated with its colors and narrate its history of tenderness and humor. “(1984).

Twenty years later (video): From 1983 to 2003, Armenia to the United States, between war and earthquake, Jacques Kebadian realizes the path of the family Hovanessian (with Serge Avedikian) who leaves the country to another Hope (2003).

Between each plot to his poetic gaze Kébadian Jacques, whose family hails from Yozgat, reported some of the details of this unusual course and shooting conditions.

Biography Nicole Brenez

“If it were true that it is to feed a stranger rencontrât throughout Nature and had the character of a general law – although the puzzles are solved. “Goethe (1827), cited by Peter Kropotkin in Mutual Aid, a Factor of Evolution (1902).

This is one of the most beautiful and rewarding filmmaker biographies: a tract three mimeographed sheets, dated November 15, 1970 “The Committee of the Red Aid Film violently protests against the arbitrary manner in which the police presented to the press the arrest of Jacques Kebadian, the filmmaker who was the assistant to Robert Bresson, who collaborated with JL Godard, and has played a large part in the creation of the States General Cinema in May 68 It is from this date, revolutionary filmmaker, he decided to bind more specifically to the struggle of the working class. It integrates with the fight, it does so as factory worker Valentine activist against the inhuman working conditions reserved for workers of this factory fumes poisoning soda, accidents at work ‘policies employers threatening diseases. All this for 3,40f time for immigrant workers, and between 4f and 4,70f for French workers. Intellectual revolutionary activist, he considered that the political action in a factory would be the logical extension – a popular logic and not bourgeois – its cinematic combat. He was driven from the factory with other activists who were distributing leaflets, it is, since September 25, jailed for Health under the common criminals. “In October, Jacques Kebadian was sentenced to two months’ suspended imprisonment. Twenty years later, in March 2000, he was convicted of “ranting” against the police. Cinephiles who met very elegant and soft Jacques Kebadian can not fail to smile. Any spectator of Remorse (1973), René Vautier malicious parable about the cowardice of the French filmmakers facing the Algeria war and racism, appreciate the circumstances of the arrest “when officers of the security forces are attacking under his eyes to an individual of African origin, Kebadian inevitably puts his two cents. ‘A policeman said,’ Move! ‘ ‘But I have every right to attend the scene!’. Black rue Montorgueil is ultimately not the thief in search pulls. ‘To avoid going home empty handed,’ says the filmmaker, the police verbalize. “(Renaud Lecadre, Le Monde, 18 March 2000). Young people in Albertine (1972), the one Bush undocumented migrants to another (1997) Zapatista Indians Fragile Armada (2003), the working class, the lumpen proletariat, exiles, Jacques Kebadian to post alongside of all the oppressed, desperate and uneven or wrestling. Never resign, especially not to the disappearance: a long series of films devoted to Armenia before and after the 1915 genocide punctuates a path that is primarily characterized by its many loyalties. Loyalty to the Armenian origins, long-term collaborations with other artists (Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy, Guyotat Pierre François Marie Anthonioz, Patrick Bilge …), consistently work with other filmmakers (franssou Taking Serge Avedikian, Joani Hocquenghem …), attendance to build a gallery of portraits of exemplary women (Germaine Tillion, Genevieve de Gaulle, Shushan Kebadian and sisters, dancers Apsaras Cambodia …). Where wars, massacres and economic violence have torn the films of Jacques Kebadian creating and re the bonds of brotherhood, love and artistic creation (dance, architecture, literature, painting). Rebuild, preserve, listen to survivors through time through folk traditions, observe how crystallizes life through scholarly works or spontaneous, transmit rumor and ideals of the people in action: the work of Jacques Kebadian affiliated film at this resistant function, supportive and helpful which, according to Goethe and Kropotkin, characterized – too – the human race. ”

September 5 presentation:

Albertine, the fragrant memory of Marie Rose – France / 1972/25 ‘/ 35mm

Kebadian of Jacques and Eugene Varlin Collective

“Comedy insolent and antiauthoritarian, between fiction and documentary, Albertine, movie-manifesto of the uprising of youth and desires, tells the story of a teenager in rebellion against the school, the rancid family, religion and places Directed girls and boys aged 14 to 18 who assert their right to unfettered sexuality and abortion rights for minors. “(Imhoff & Alyosha Kantuta Quiros)

Portrait of Michel Chion (excerpt) – France / 1975/22 / video

“After Mrs. music I guess I realized the Research Department from a screenplay by Michel Chion, portrait of the composer and his music. “(JK)

Trotsky – France / 1967/50 ‘/ 16mm

Patrice Chéreau, Marcel Maréchal, Marcel Bozonnet François Lafarge, Françoise Renberg, Hocquenghem, Joani Hocquenghem, Pierre-William Glenn, Mic Andrieu, Walter Bal. “The lyrical, minimalist fiction, the archives of the Russian Revolution and the Soviet films, notable movies, cult films are treated on an equal footing. Everyone returns and takes on the mantle, ie the leather jacket, the revolutionary; revolution is in everyone, each bears the verb, it is multiple, multiple and all. “(Taking franssou)

Ceremony for a win – France / 1966/10 ‘/ 35mm

“From the sculpted work of Ipoustéguy, evocation of the Battle of Stalingrad. The use of the endoscope for shooting scrambles scale components manufactured by sculptor to discuss the tragedy. “(JK)

Stories of a sculpture based on the work of Ipousteguy

Kebadian of Jacques and Françoise Taking – France / 1980/40 ‘/ 16mm

“Ipoustéguy has a calm cunning voice, he uses only the few words necessary to the understanding of all. We listen, meanwhile, he used it to carve “as if nothing had happened.” At the magic of his art he substituted a kind conversation contained, modest, instructive. “(Michel Butel)

Apsaras 2 – France / 1989/45 ‘/ 16mm

“The Apsaras are the ballet dancers of Khmer. Among them Princess Buppha Devi, daughter of Prince Sihanouk. “(JK)
Sunday, September 28, 2014,
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France launches first IS airstrike in Iraq

September 19, 2014 By administrator

French jets have carried out their first strike against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, BBC News reports, citing the office of President Francois Hollande.

A statement said that planes had attacked an IS depot in north-east Iraq, and there would be more raids in the coming days.

The US has carried out more than 170 air strikes against the jihadist group in Iraq since mid-August.

IS remains in control of dozens of cities and towns in Iraq and Syria, where it has declared a caliphate.

France is the first of Washington’s allies to strike at IS targets. The mission underscores the perhaps surprising military activism of the socialist French president.
Read more on the BBC website.

THE EMBASSY OF ARMENIA in Paris Tribute to Ovsanna Kaloustian

September 15, 2014 By administrator

The Embassy of Armenia in France is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Mrs. Ovsanna Kaloustian, at the age of 106 years.

Doyenne of French of Armenian origin, one of the last witnesses of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, Mrs. Kaloustian was and will forever remain a proof of the vitality of the Armenian people after so many trials and a strong symbol of the fight against the forgetfulness and denial for future generations.

At this moment of great sorrow our thoughts are with all Armenians of France and especially the family of Ovsanna Kaloustian is all his relatives to whom we extend our deepest condolences.

Embassy of Armenia in France

France Valencia, presentation of projects by the Committee referents Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

September 10, 2014 By administrator

As part of the Mission 2015, Tuesday, September 9 at the House of associations of Valencia, a hundred people responded to the invitation of the Committee of the referents of the commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian genocide in Drôme Ardèche, composed of Rastklan Mary Elizabeth Pellet (Association of Armenians in Romans), Krikor Amirzayan (Armenia association), Jean-Marc Shot (EDI-Val association) and Zareh Gharibian (Homenetmen) for the public meeting to present the event. Nicolas Daragon, Mayor of Valencia recalled its peak of the city of Valencia “to mark this year’s centenary celebrations of genocide” desires. He said he was “disappointed by the attitude of the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, today now that statement on the eve of April 24 has not been followed by concrete acts of genocide recognition.” Nicolas Daragon called fight “in union” to ask France to pass a law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide than making events up to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. He brought to the Armenian community fully supports and personal commitment to succeeding.

The Deputy Mayor of Valencia, Annie Koulaksezian-Romy delegated to the Center of the Armenian heritage (as well as agglomeration), also stressed the memory of the genocide “that must be paid to the other through an opening condition essential for effective communication and large-scale. “ Annie Koulaksezian-Romy congratulating the group for bringing together the entire Armenian associations for this action, as well as partners. At the forefront of these cities of Valence, Romans, Bourg-Les-Valence, the Armenian Heritage Centre.

Marie Rastklan then detailed under the Mission in 2015 with the goals before giving the floor to the other referees who in turn have detailed the dozens of projects identified by the group. Projects that will continue to grow and expand in the coming months with cultural events, documentary films, exhibitions, music, meetings with writers, journalists and concerts. Note also the quality interventions during the evening, including that of Philippe Panossian, National President Ugab, Laure Piaton, director of the Center of the Armenian Heritage Valencia and Regis Panossian the association president Memory and Armenian cultures Montelimar. Among the public, Abrahamian Jacques Edouard Georges Isachian Tchokaklian and gave details or questions of interest to the success of these projects. At the end of the evening, the audience was invited to a reception.

Krikor Amirzayan, text and photos reportage

French MP supports bill criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial

September 5, 2014 By administrator

YEREVAN. – French MP Bruno Le Roux said he is committed to the values of France president on adoption of a law criminalizing Armenian Genocide denial.

Le Roux, head of Socialist group of the French National Assembly, said they are attaching importance to the events dedicated to the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.

The French lawmaker said there is no necessity in launching new bill, but it is time to adopt the existing one.

“We need to stop all the initiatives on this issue. There is no political issue, and we all share the view that prosecution is needed in case of denial of the Armenian Genocide, this opinion is shared by the President of France. The question remained in the legal field: it is necessary to initiate a bill that will not interfere with the right of freedom of speech,” he told reporters in Yerevan.

The delegation of French parliament headed by Le Roux is on a visit to Yerevan.

France Denialist propaganda of the Turkish state in France

September 4, 2014 By administrator

National Bureau of CCAF

A booklet entitled “the events of 1915 and the Turkish-Armenian controversy over the story,” conducted by the denialist pharmacy AVIM (Center for Eurasian Studies, based in Ankara), been a few months since a shipment in many local communities, authorities, institutions and the different French universities. This booklet claiming to work for the “reconciliation between Turks and Armenians” around a “just memory” actually develops a series of specious arguments to deny the genocidal character of the events of 1915, to exonerate government leaders “Young Turkish “of the time and put on the same footing” Turkish and Armenian suffering “during World War II.

This propaganda, as massive in its form and in its sly background shows that the Turkish authorities that subsidize AVIM, do not intend simply to spread the denial of the Armenian genocide within their borders. They also make an export product that comes now thrive in France, land of welcome for survivors.

These despicable methods, using all the tricks of manipulation to launder the Turkish state, are part of the business logic of extermination. They aim to complete the crime by challenging up to reality.

A few months before the centenary celebrations in 1915, this challenge is also an attack on the memory of the dead and a final assault on the survivors. She just cruelly remind the shortcomings of the law face a State denial whose area of nuisance crosses boundaries, and whose symbolic violence is the extent of resources devoted to its propagation.

The CFC urges the authorities to take all measures to combat this communication operation assassins of memory in the territory and to implement a bill that would fight with the weapons of law against this new form of crime.

National Bureau of CCAF