“Genocide Denial” Laws Get Setback in Switzerland

“Genocide Denial” Laws Get Setback in Switzerland

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a Turkish politician should not have been prosecuted for denying that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turkey was a genocide. Judges ruled by 10 votes to seven that Dogu Perincek’s 2007 conviction for racial discrimination by a Swiss court infringed his right to free…

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Armenian Stonehenge Confounds Scholars

Armenian Stonehenge Confounds Scholars

By Frank Joseph. Sprawling over more than 17 acres atop a rocky promontory overlooking the arid, sparsely populated landscape of southern Armenia is the very ancient site known as Karahunj. Hundreds of configured stones towering six to nine feet tall have been thrust into the flinty earth. Forming an immense, oval configuration, they average 10…

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