Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Historians to Handle 'Algerian Genocide'

"Historians to Handle 'Algerian Genocide'
By Ali Ihsan Aydin, Paris
Published: Tuesday, April 25, 2006
zaman.com

France, overlooking the suggestion to 'resort to historians' when it issued the so-called Armenian Genocide Law five years ago, now seeks assistance from historians in the face of accusations of having committed genocide.

'Memory study cannot be conducted by politicians; it is neither the business of parliamentary representatives nor that of senators,' the French foreign minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said."

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