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Sunday, August 07, 2005

JTW News - Swiss Senate: ‘Genocide’ Allegations is Not Parliament’s Job

Editor's Note: May this be an example to all other governments who already have accepted, or are planning to accept the so-called genocide.

"Swiss Senate: ‘Genocide’ Allegations is Not Parliament’s Job
* The 1915 events and Armenian ‘genocide’ allegations will never be an issue for the Swiss Senate, according to the president of the Senate foreign affairs committee.

* Peter Briner said other countries had no business pointing the finger at Turkey 90 years after the disputed events.

Kemal YENICE (ANKARA) Peter Briner, president of the Senate foreign affairs committee, said the committee had decided that the death or deportation of Armenians between 1915 and 1919 would not be the subject of a plenary session. During the First World War many Turks and Armenians were killed as a result of war circumstances and ethnic conflicts. Turks claim that at least 520,000 Turkish villagers were ma
ssacred by armed Armenian ultra-nationalist groups, Tashnaks and others, while the Armenian side similarly argue that more than 500,000 Armenians were killed during the years."

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