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Posted By shirley on January 25, 2012

Due to pressing family issues, I have not been attending this blog properly. However, I have been aware of what France has enacted.  I’m still thinking about this. It’s a good thing, but as an American, I believe in people being able to voice their opinion.  In any event, French Armenians are very happy and the government of Turkey is not.  In a way, it shows the cowardice of our own US government which won’t even allow its president to call what happened to the Armenians in Turkey a genocide.

Of course, France has to do this for their own conscience.  They are partially responsible for not protecting the Armenians.

There was a festive mood outside the French embassy in Yerevan as Armenians celebrated the passing of a French law making it illegal to deny that the Armenian Genocide.Many expressed their gratitude to France and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose party first proposed the bill. Sarkozy also received a letter from Armenia’s President Serzh Sarkisian.“Today France has reaffirmed its greatness and power, its devotion to the universal human values,” said Sarkisian in his letter. “This day is exceptional for all those, who are struggling for the protection of human rights, for the condemnation and prevention of the crimes against humanity.”

via Celebrations Follow French Senate Vote | Asbarez Armenian News.

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Posted By shirley on January 10, 2012

This is great – Al Jazeera is going to be airing this documentary.  Al Jazeera reaches about a billion English speaking viewers.  I have to see this documentary also.  Hopefully I can watch it on Al Jazeera online.  It starts tomorrow!

“Grandma’s Tattoos” (2011), a 58-minute-long documentary, chronicles Khardalian’s quest to uncover the atrocities that scarred her grandmother, a woman who bore “devilish marks”—tattoos on her face and hands—that were the persistent reminders of a time in captivity and rape during the Armenian Genocide. Much of her experiences remain a mystery to her progeny, but the few tidbits Khardalian discovered years after her grandmother’s death are but a faint yet terrifying echo of the hellish occurrences that haunted the survivors to the grave

via Al Jazeera to Air ‘Grandma’s Tattoos’ | Asbarez Armenian News.

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