Europe, France and the Armenian genocide

The journalist Teresa de Sousa deplores the adoption by French members of parliament of a law condemning any negation of the Armenian genocide. "That democracies should vote laws recognising their own crimes is one thing. ... It is however inadmissible that they should decree from a supposedly superior stand point, the impossibility of anyone to debate the nature of a crime against humanity committed by another country ... . What Europe should demand of Turkey is not that it officially acknowledges the genocide, but the unlimited right to discuss it, with equal freedom for everyone. France has done the opposite: The question can no longer be debated in France ... Like in Turkey. This is lamentable bravado from a country that continues to think that it is the centre of the universe and that, in so doing, risks eliminating the position it truly held: one of the central points of fundamental and universal rights and freedom."

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