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PARIS. – Armenian News-NEWS.am introduces an article by French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levi published in The Huffington Post with some extracts. The article refers to the French Constitutional Council’s recent decision on banning the bill, which criminalized denial of the genocides, included the Armenian Genocide.

“The power belongs to the law and to the institutions of the Republic.

Thus the Constitutional Council's rejection of the law voted by the two Houses aiming to criminalize the denial of genocides is, in the eyes of the law, and until the same two Houses reconsider it, the last word.

Nonetheless, respect for the constitutional state and its rules should not blind its citizens to a certain number of facts, which are rather disturbing in the given case.

It is not forbidden to hope that the last word will not be that of the supporters of a free speech who have already given themselves away the day after the vote, to re-qualify the Armenian genocide as a "massacre" and request "historical commissions" to establish the "reality of the facts." A discredited Council, even if it is constitutional, is not the guardian of the Truth, and, fortunately, the decision it has just taken cannot judge in advance the outcome of a battle the historians of genocides have long since won.

Not the battle for "memorial laws,” but the battle for recognition of the radical singularity of occurrences of genocide, these events that are characteristic of modern times.

We should struggle for a law for humanity, a law for the respect of these very rare truths, the transgression of which is a threat to each of us, because they aim at the heart of the human race. For a just and eminently universal law we count on the next president, whoever he may be, to include back on the agenda,” the article reads.

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