On March 18th, French-Turkish associations against the memorial of the Armenian genocide scrolled(marched past) in Lyon ( AP)
NOUVELOBS.COM ¦ 19.04.06 ¦ 14:08
The League of the rights of the Man as well as Nicolas Sarkozy get indignant revisionist registrations(inscriptions) found on the memorial of the Armenian genocide.
On March 18th, French-Turkish associations against the memorial of the Armenian genocide scrolled(marched past) in Lyon ( AP)
L e memorial of the Armenian genocide of Lyon was desecrated on Monday, bring back(report) two Armenian organizations in different communiqués.
” There was no genocide “, cries out a registration(inscription) quoted at the same moment by the Committee of defence of the Armenian cause ( CDCA) and the council of coordination of the Armenian organizations of France ( CCAF). The association for the Memorial of Lyons of the Armenian genocide ( MLGA) raised a complaint on Tuesday against X to know the authors of the desecration undergone by the monument in some days of the inauguration fixed on April 24th, according to the president of MLGA.
Remembrances
Expressing their “indignation”, both organizations wish that the authors of this desecration are found and judged.
The CDCA asks besides that ” everything is implemented(operated) to assure(insure) the safety(security) of the remembrances of next April 24th on the whole French territory “.
The memorial of Lyon must be inaugurated on April 24th of this year, date in which is commemorated, every year, the Armenian genocide committed in Turkey in 1915.
Indignant reactions
The League of human rights ( LDH) expressed on Wednesday, April 19th ” its indignation “.
In a communiqué, the LDH calls back(reminds) ” his(her,its) approval of the law of January 29th, 2001 by which France recognized publicly the Armenian genocide of 1915 and opposes to any attempt aiming at to deny the horror of this crime against humanity “.
Home secretary Nicolas Sarkozy judged for his part, on Wednesday, April 19th, “unacceptable” the registrations(inscriptions) concerned the memorial.
In a message sent on Wednesday to Jules Mardirossian, president of the Association for the memorial of Lyons, home secretary considers that ” this crime of violence, expressing the negationism and the hatred, is unacceptable “.
” His(her) author, or his authors, must be severely punished by the justice of our country “, adds Nicolas Sarkozy, who assures(insures) the Armenian community of its ” whole solidarity “. He reminds that ” the Republic expressed herself with force, by the law of January 29th, 2001 according to which: ‘ France recognizes publicly the Armenian genocide of 1915 ‘ “.
So, asserts home secretary, ” the authorities of the Republic will not accept that the law is scoffed “.
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