"Will France make it illegal to deny Turkey's Armenian genocide?
History, some historians point out, is written by the victors. Are there times, though, when history is written by legislators?
Last Thursday, deputies in the lower house of France's National Assembly approved a bill that would make it a crime to deny that mass killings by the Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey's predecessor) of Armenians between 1915 and 1917 constituted what can be called genocide; Armenians claim the mass killings and deportations of ethnic Armenians during that period, which Turkey has long refuted, was genocide that led to more than 1.5 million deaths.(Le Monde)"
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