Gwynne Dyer: The Armenian massacres and the French presidential elections
French president Nicolas Sarkozy sucks up to Armenians just in time for elections.
By Gwynne Dyer, January 24, 2012
I go to France quite often, but after this article is published, I may be liable to arrest if I set foot in the country.
The French parliament has just passed a bill, proposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party, that will make it a crime to question whether the Armenian massacres in eastern Turkey in 1915 qualified as a genocide. Sarkozy will doubtless sign it into law next month, just in time for the presidential elections.
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