French Teacher Faces Problems In Teaching

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FRENCH TEACHER FACES PROBLEMS IN TEACHING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

 

PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1, ARMENPRESS: A teacher of a Paris-based school complained recently that she faces tremendous difficulties when telling about the Armenian genocide, committed by the government of Turkey in 1915. She said that several students of Turkish descent hinder her class.

The teacher complained during a discussion of the latest issue of Shoa History Magazine, run by the Modern Jewish Documentary Center that was completely dedicated to Armenian genocide.

The discussion of a 600-page work was attended by Jews and Armenian experts. The magazine's chief editor George Bensusan told in an interview with Paris-based Armenian language weekly Haraj that both the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide were crimes against humanity. He said the struggle for international recognition of the genocide must go on with the same speed.

Helen Strabelias, one of the contributors to the magazine, was quoted as saying that history textbooks of first and third grade of French schoolchildren will contain more information on the Armenian genocide.

France's parliament passed the bill on publicly recognizing the killing of Armenians by Turks in 1915 as genocide in 2001. Turkey warned France against passing the bill, saying trade and diplomatic relations would suffer.

There are about 300,000 people of Armenian origin in France, most of whom are descendants of survivors of the 1915 killings in which Armenians say 1.5 million of their compatriots were massacred by Turks.

 

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