FAON: It's absurd that Armenian Genocide is not included in the law against denial

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Federation of Armenian Organizations in the Netherlands (FAON) has urgently requested the Dutch government to not agree in Brussels with a directive criminalising denial and trivializing of the genocide. The PanARMENIAN.Net journalist was told in FAON that Federation's call is grounded with the fact that the Armenian Genocide is not included in the document. The FAON asks an urgent consultation and requests meanwhile to not take irreversible steps such as the approval of the European directives, if they would imply such an exclusion. "The FAON finds it absurd and unacceptable, that exactly this first great Genocide of the 20th century, which is systematically denied by Turkey in line with the Turkish denialist policy, would be excluded. Such a distinction between historical events would mean a flagrant inequality and would be a big and unacceptable contempt towards the destiny of the Armenians by Europe. Still more than that, it shows Europe on its knees before the aggressive denialist practices of Turkey and the umpteenth success by Turkey in Europe for that denialist policy," says the FAON statement.