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TO IMPROVE WHAT WAS IMPROVED

Politics

One of the most important points of Armenian policy turned to be neglected at Parliament working. The Committee of Human Rights affiliated with Armenian president considers as necessary to correct that failure.

The issue is over Genocide and Criminal Code of Armenia. The Law, approved in 1961, was “improved” on April 18, 2003 but is still imperfect. So, the new Parliament will have to mend one of the “masterpieces” of the previous one and to again improve the Law, already improved, with amendments.

The above committee is concerned that under Criminal Legislation of Armenia there is no amenability for refuting Genocide fact, for justifying those guilty for crime and other actions like.

At that aspect, our Law falls short of international standards . In particular, it falls short of UNO’ Convention on Preventing Genocide Crime and Punishing it. The paper will be as a basis for improvement of Armenian Criminal Code.

A suggestion was made to use the punishment measures in 3 cases. For refuting the fact of slaughter of the Armenians in Western Armenia and in the areas under Ottoman Turkey control or justifying that crime 1-year imprisonment is envisaged.

It will be considered as a more serious crime if refuting and justifying are published or released in other materials. This time a criminal will be imprisoned by 2 years.

The utmost punishment for refuting the fact of Armenian Genocide is envisaged for a foreign state, foreign organisation, or a representative of them. If under the instructions of aforementioned people Genocide is disproved or justified, the foreigners will be imprisoned in Armenia for 3 years.

The Committee of Human Rights, affiliated with Armenian president, won’t just introduce its proposals to Parliament. A special work will be done in order that the suggestions might be taken action on properly, and the public is aware of the problem and realises necessity for solving it.