[Marxism] EU seeks to outlaw denial of holocausts EU finds it useful to recognize

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

EU plans to outlaw Holocaust denial;
STILL FINE TO SAY THE ARMENIANS DESERVED WHAT THEY GOT
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/60e63a2e-ed49-11db-9520-000b5df10621.html


TOBIAS BUCK, FINANCIAL TIMES - Laws that make denying or trivializing the
Holocaust a criminal offence punishable by jail sentences will be introduced
across the European Union, according to a proposal. Offenders will face up
to three years in jail under the proposed legislation, which will also apply
to inciting violence against ethnic, religious or national groups. . . The
Baltic countries and Poland are still holding out for an inclusion of
"Stalinist crimes" alongside the Holocaust in the text - a move that is
being resisted by the majority of other EU countries.

The latest draft, seen by the Financial Times, will make it mandatory for
all Union member states to punish public incitement "to violence or hatred
directed against a group of persons or a member of such a group defined by
reference to race, color, religion, descent or national or ethnic origin".

They will also have to criminalise "publicly condoning, denying or grossly
trivializing crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes"
when such statements incite hatred or violence against minorities.

Diplomats stressed the provision had been carefully worded to include only
denial of the Holocaust - the Nazi mass murder of Jews during the second
world war - and the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. . . 

Holocaust denial is already a criminal offence in several European
countries, including Germany and Austria. . . 

In an attempt to assuage Turkish fears, several EU diplomats said the
provisions would not penalize the denial of mass killing of Armenians by
Ottoman troops in the aftermath of the 1915 collapse of the Ottoman empire.
Turkey strongly rejects claims that this episode amounted to genocide.



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