Hrant Dink, an Armenian-Turkish newspaper editor who had received death threats from nationalists for questioning Turkey’s denial of an Armenian genocide, was shot in the head and killed today.
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Stepan Haytayan is the grandfather of Serj Tankian, the lead singer of System of a Down. Haytayan is a survivor of the Armenian genocide where 1.5 Armenians were slaughtered by Turks in 1915. The band has made a documentary about it, Screamers. It deals with the genocide and the continued refusal of many to [...] As well they should. The French parliament voted yesterday to make it a crime to say the Armenian genocide did not happen, just like Germany already does with their law banning Holocaust revisionism. Both atrocities happened. To pretend they didn’t is beyond sick. Turkey says, well, it wasn’t genocide because it wasn’t planned by the [...] The French parliament has voted to support a law that criminalizes denying the Armenian genocide happened. The European Commission attacked this saying open dialogue is needed about Armenia in Turkey, a potential EU member. Yet Turkey has already made it illegal to discuss the genocide. In Germany, saying another genocide, the Holocaust, didn’t occur is [...] Bill Paparian, former mayor of Pasadena CA, is running for the House as a Green. Something is happening. His campaign is getting major traction, interest from the media, and the buzz is definitely building. This will not be the usual Green campaign where the candidate gets 5% of the vote, rather Paparian will get considerably [...] |  | ||||
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