French Lawmakers Pass Genocide Law on Armenians
By ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press
PARIS December 22, 2011 (AP)
French lawmakers easily passed a measure Thursday to make it a crime in France to deny that the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 by Ottoman Turks amounted to genocide. State TV in Turkey, which had promised retaliation if the bill passed, said the country's ambassador to France would be withdrawn.
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