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January 31, 2012 |
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Secretary Clinton Disapproves the French Memory Law
ATAA congratulates U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for
her principled stand on the draconic French law criminalizing thought
ATAA commends U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her principled stand against a bill that French President Nicolas Sarkozy may sign into law to criminalize rejecting, let alone questioning, the Armenian allegation of genocide. It is remarkable that in this day and age of information, a fundamental right as "freedom of expression" can be jeopardized by an ethnic lobby in France and in America.
ATAA supports more, not less, information and exchange on the shared history and shared tragedy of the Turkish and Armenian people. ATAA supports the Turkey - Armenia Protocols Historical Commission, which would utilize experts in Ottoman history rather than politicians. ATAA calls upon France to respect the European Convention on Human Rights.
In the same vein, ATAA calls upon the US Congress to reject any resolution that would prejudice the legitimate historical and legal question of whether the Armenian case constitutes genocide. At most, Congress should encourage research and scholarship on the Armenian allegation as well as the reciprocal and concurrent cases of Ottoman Muslims and Jews who were also massacred in and expelled from former Ottoman lands, Eastern Anatolia included.
Please enjoy the report by AA below as a celebration of freedom of thought in America:
Clinton Criticizes French "Genocide" Bill
Friday, 27 January 2012 / AA
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said regarding the bill adopted by French Senate to make it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915 that she hoped that they were never going to go down that path to criminalize speech.
Replying to a question on the United States' stance regarding the French bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian allegations, Clinton said, "first, one of our great strengths is we do not criminalize speech. People can say nearly anything they choose, and they do, in our country. And so other countries, including close friends and allies like France, have different standards, different histories, but we are, I hope, never going to go down that path to criminalize speech."
"I think it's fair to say that this has always been viewed, and I think properly so, as a matter of historical debate and conclusions rather than political. And I think that is the right posture for the United States Government to be in, because whatever the terrible event might be or the high emotions that it represents, to try to use government power to resolve historical issues, I think, opens a door that is a very dangerous one to go through," she said.
The bill penalizes denial of the Armenian allegations with a prison term of one year and a fine of 45 thousand euros.
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