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FRANCE Valerie Boyer filed a new bill aimed at punishing the denial of genocide and crimes against humanity of the twentieth century

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At a time when we are preparing to commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide, there is no law still allows France to punish denial of genocide and crimes against arton102958-400x393humanity, with the exception of the Holocaust. While two genocides are officially recognized by France, the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (recognized by the law of 29 January 2001), only the denial of the Holocaust is that sanctioned by the Gayssot day, thus creating competition briefs. This unjust situation must end, both for the criminalization of the denial of the genocide of 1915 than for the other genocides that wish to recognize France.

I already had in 2011 proposed a law along the lines of EU law on the fight against racism and repression of genocide recognized by French law with which the Armenian genocide. The bill was adopted by all groups in the National Assembly and the Senate on January 23 2012 Unfortunately, it was the subject of censorship of the Constitutional Council, on the grounds that the denial part of freedom of expression, ending the attempted criminalization of Holocaust denial.

Yet the opportunity to punish denial of all genocides and crimes against humanity echoes a burning issue in the context of persecution against Eastern Christians in Iraq in particular, described by Ban Ki-Moon of crimes against humanity.

It is necessary and urgent to legislate to propose a new classification of denial. I’m so used to working to draft an alternative and innovative version, the fruit of reflection that I conducted with leading lawyers criminal lawyers. That is why I propose that denial is no longer considered by the law as a simple abuse of freedom of expression, but as a crime against humanity.

This has two advantages: exit the opposite by the Constitutional Council on freedom of expression and protection of all genocides recognized by our law legal impasse.

This is a legislative enriched that I suggest to co-signed by my colleagues, a nonpartisan law to the public interest that overcomes the partisan considerations. This text is intended to be universal because it protects all genocides recognized by French law and is in compliance with Human Rights. This law will soon be available on the website of the National Assembly and wish consideration intervene soon because this cause is close to my heart but it is especially critical to our commitment and our law.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Baku “mortified” over France’s demand to return Armenian captive’s body

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Paris is deeply shocked by the death of Armenian citizen Karen Petrosyan killed in Azeri captivity, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said in a statement.

181803“France offers its condolences to Karen Petrosyan’s family. We urge Azeri authorities to return his body immediately and launch a probe into circumstances of his death,” the statement said.

Baku, as usual, acted mortified by blaming France with a “bad habit of interfering in Azeri affairs” and “overtly pro-Armenian stance, which renders its Co-Chairmanship in the OSCE Minsk Group unsuitable,” Haqqin.az reported.

 

 

 

 

France: Demonstration in support of the Kurdish resistance against the horror

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“Ara Toranian “Yes we support you in your fight! “

arton102485-480x271Speech from the co-chair of the CFC, Ara Toranian in support of the call of the Federation of Associations of France Kurds

Saturday, August 16, at the call of the Federation of Associations of France Kurds (FEYKA), supported by several Yezidi-Kurdish organizations, the French Communist Party, Kurdistan-France, MRAP, NPA, CCAF etc., nearly 1,200 protesters this gathered in Paris, facing the St. Lawrence Church, near the railway station of the East. A procession then headed Place du Chatelet chanting “We are all Yezidi! , “” Genocide alert “,” Free Ocalan! “. Several speakers took their turn, calling the attention of the international community on the crimes committed in Iraq by jihadists LEILL against civilians.

Berivan Akyol, Kurdish activist, close to three PKK militants, killed Jan. 9, 2013, called on the international community to adopt sanctions against state sponsors LEIIL. It also calls, “the West and the United States to act quickly,” adding “As Amnesty International has said, it really is inadequate compared to the drama that is taking place there.” Moreover, Berivan Akyol expects the international community, the PKK, which is currently struggling against the Islamic state, be removed from the list of terrorist organizations and the release of its leader Abdullah Ocalan. Organization, she said, which is now a bulwark against Islamic invasion; whose legitimacy. Expressing close to all minorities, activist says that no one can remove, neither Christians nor Muslims, Armenians, Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrian-Chaldeans from their land, “living there for millennia. “

In solidarity with the Yezidi cause, Ara Toranian, co-chair of Armenian Organizations of France, expressed the “sense of dread and indignation of the Armenian community before these mass crimes entrenched in the area for the Empire Ottoman “. He praised the strength of the Kurdish people “that provides a de facto protector to all people who live on their land arms” without being in the same religion.

In his speech, Ara Toranian exclaimed: “Is it acceptable that 100 years after the Armenian genocide, it is the opportunity to see this sad spectacle of refugees fleeing their own land to escape the destructive effects of an ideology as violent as retrograde. “

He also recalled the fate of the Armenians, Assyrians and Chaldeans, Pontic Greeks, Yezidis, Alevis and Kurds persecuted on different fronts and different countries. And “all other things being equal, numerous Turks who also had their share of suffering.”

“When you kill a Christian or a Muslim for what he is or what he believes, it is all the bleeding area,” said he hammered; adding “it is all of humanity back. “

Co-Chair of the CFC concluded his speech justifying the support of the Armenian community to the call of the Federation of Kurdish Associations France by “convergence based on values, not on mere reflexes caste.” “Yes we support you in your fight! “Has he said finally,” because you are yourselves in danger, but also because we continue to defend a vision of the interests of the region to which we are attached. A vision that requires respect for all peoples who live there and also those who, temporarily perhaps, are living longer. “

Source: http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=102485

France urges UN Security Council meeting as Islamic State seizes Christian town

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0,,17748702_303,00Paris has requested an urgent UN Security Council meeting after jihadist insurgents took control of the Iraq’s largest Christian town, forcing thousands to flee. The country has also been hit by a new wave of bombings.

 French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Thursday called for a meeting of the UN Security Council after Islamist militants in northern Iraq seized the country’s largest Christian town and nearby villages.

The new gains by “Islamic State” (IS) militants have reportedly prompted thousands of Christians to flee the northern town of Qaraqosh and surrounding areas, residents and Christian clerics said on Thursday.

“Given the seriousness of the situation – the first victims of which are civilians and religious minorities – France is requesting an urgent meeting of the Security Council so the international community can mobilize to counter the terrorist threat in Iraq and support and protect the population at risk,” Fabius said in a statement.

The takeovers are the latest gains by IS, an al Qaeda splinter group formerly known as ISIS. Over the weekend the Sunni militants dealt a humiliating defeat on Kurdistan’s military – the Peshmerga – across the north.

Bishop Joseph Tomas said Qaraqoush and at least four other predominantly Christian villages were in the hands of IS and that Kurdish units, which had protected the area, had also fled. Other priests confirmed the information.

“It’s a catastrophe, a tragic situation,” Tomas told the AFP news agency, “We call on the UN Security Council to immediately intervene. Tens of thousands of terrified people are being displaced as we speak, it cannot be described.”

Families on the march

According to residents, many are fleeing to autonomous Kurdistan.

“Most families are fleeing the town towards the province of Dahuk in Kurdistan,” a resident said.

Many thousands of Iraq’s Christians have been forced to flee their homes since the IS seized large chunks of the country in a lightning advance in June.

As the IS pressed on with its expansion in the north, a suicide bomber killed 14 people in a Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday.

Since the militants seized much of the country’s north and west, there has been a renewed campaign of bombings against Baghdad, particularly in Shiite areas. A series of car bombings on Wednesday night killed 51.

As many as nine people were also killed on Thursday in two car bombings in the Kurdish-held Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk.

rc/kms (Reuters, AFP, dpa)

France says ready to welcome Christians from northern Iraq

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Reuters

France said on Monday, July 28, it is ready to welcome Christians from northern Iraq who have been told by the al Qaeda offshoot group now ruling the region to either convert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face 81149_943014268death, Reuters reported.

Islamic State insurgents seized large swathes of northern Iraq last month, prompting hundreds of Christian families in Mosul to flee a city which has hosted the faith since its earliest years.

“We are providing aid to displaced people fleeing from the threats of Islamic Sate and who have sought refuge in Kurdistan. We are ready, if they wish, to facilitate their asylum on our soil,” France’s Foreign and Interior Ministers said in a joint statement.

“We are in constant contact with local and national authorities to ensure everything is done to protect them.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki earlier this month condemned the treatment of the Christians and instructed a government committee to help those made homeless. However, he has not said when the army might try to win back control of Mosul.

Islamic State has warned all women in Mosul to wear full-face veils or risk severe punishment. The Sunni insurgents, who have declared a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria, also view Iraq’s majority Shi’ites as infidels who deserve to be killed.

France The Delegation of the Republic of Armenia on the Champs Elysées

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Delegation-of the Republic of ArmeniaIn this July 14, 2014, commemorating the centenary of the First World War, it is not less than 80 country delegations who participated directly or indirectly in the war of 1914-1918. Among the 80 delegations, three representatives of the Armenian army parade on the Champs Elysées to the President of the Republic and the Corps formed.

 

Desecration of the memorial of the Armenian Genocide in Villeurbanne

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The beautiful memorial of the Armenian Genocide Villeurbanne which had been inaugurated by Mayor Jean-Paul Bret April 23, 2005, on the eve of the commemoration of its 90th anniversary was desecrated on July 3. arton101396-480x271Vandals have attacked the particular entry made of steel letters that were embedded in the stone. Some of these letters were torn and twisted others to deface the phrase “recognize the Armenian genocide.”

This outrage is another attack on the memory of the million and a half Armenians were exterminated in 1915 under the direction of Young Turk government. It is part of the long list of sacrilegious actions against the victims of this crime which is still not recognized by the Turkish state and continues to do its part the subject of a militant denial. This new affront to the dignity of the dead rests the issue of criminalization of denial of the Armenian genocide and the adoption of a new law on this subject, as there are committed repeatedly authorities.

France: Kurds murdered in Paris: we must continue the hunt for sponsors (family)

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The investigation into the murder of three Kurdish activists in January 2013 in Paris must dig the track of potential liability Turkish services in the crime, told AFP Monday the cansiz_2533649bbrother of a victim at the end of a meeting with the judge.

The Anti-terrorism magistrate Jeanne Duye received for several hours at the courthouse in Paris families Sakine Cansiz, Dogan Fidan and Leyla Saylemez to a point on its investigation into a crime that shocked the Kurdish community.

Alleged running of this triple murder, Turkish Ömer Güney is indicted and imprisoned forever. Questions about its possible relationship with the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) have been revived in recent months, including the distribution of a recording on the internet likely to cause.

Denis Dogan Dogan Fidan’s brother, told AFP that the plaintiffs had presented to the judge the text of a pre-election speech in March in Urfa in southeastern Turkey, the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

“He says that the Gülen movement, organization infiltrated the Turkish state apparatus, is responsible for the triple murder,” he has explained with reference to the brotherhood of the imam Fethullah Gülen. “We now expect the judge to investigate in this direction.”

Mr. Gulen, 72, lives since 1999 in Pennsylvania, where he directs a powerful socio-religious movement that count millions of members, very influential in the police and the Turkish judiciary.

The head of government accuses “güleniste” movement, long an ally, to be the origin of the vast corruption scandal that threatens his regime since mid-December. Erdogan suspected of having been a “parallel state” to cause his downfall.

“We also expect that the judge questioned the French intelligence services to see if they have information about Ömer Güney,” continued Mr. Dogan. The judge denied this request in September.

Mr. Dogan said he was “generally satisfied” with the inquiry: “Many elements show that Güney committed the murder and that he was a pawn of MIT,” said he accused.

Earlier this year, MIT had again denied any involvement.

Sakine Cansiz was a figure of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), considered close to its historic leader Abdullah Öcalan. Dogan Fidan was a Kurdish activist well known in the European political class.

They were executed several times in the head January 9, 2013 in Kurdish Information Centre (CIK) in Paris.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Marseille, France 150 school children dance and music JAF Marseille ignited the Théâtre du Moulin

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Last Saturday night, June 14, 2014, in Marseille, the 500 attendees at the Théâtre du Moulin were conquered by a dance and a bit unusual music. These are indeed the 150 arton100863-480x216children dance schools – School vanouch Khanamirian – and music – School Khatchadour Avedissian – the Armenian Youth France Marseille – JAF – who had their 14th Gala

Opening, the children’s choir accompanied by the students of the school of traditional Armenian music set the tone of this show. With the sequence of rhythmic dances and amazing musical performances, older students aged 5 to 17 years, flourished on stage showing the result of a year of work. A final dazzling full color closed the 2 hours of bliss. Show a very high quality served by wonderful costumes and professionalism worthy of their elders Araxes Sasun.

A huge congratulations to the two schools Marion Chamassian directors, and Michael Vemian, who with their teams of teachers transmit the art of dance and Armenian music, and are born of vocations to the young grass. The enthusiasm of the children and the scenic rendering suggests that the bet schools FLD is largely won.

In short, a real success for these small carriers of culture, after which any given June 14 at the Mill, go applaud the 40 professional dancers from the National Ballet Of Armenia. For organizing the outstanding tour in France of all “PAREGAMOUTIOUN” JAF will allow these new generations discover that Armenia is better in terms of dance. A great way to improve the education and training of the young hopes of the Armenian culture.

Armenian Youth France

Varoujan BOZADJIAN Cultural Centre Armenian Youth France the

47, avenue de Toulon –

13006 Marseille

Tel: 04 91802820 l Fax: 04 91802821 the

Mail: jaf.marseille @ la-jaf.com the

Website: www.la-jaf.com