November 25, 2006 - 15:08 AMT
Armenian Genocide One of Reasons of Loss of Dutch Labor Party
Armenian Genocide was one of reasons of loss of the Dutch Labor Party (PvdA), the Federation of the Armenian Organizations of Netherlands (FAON) told PanARMENIAN.Net. On the one hand many Turks did no appreciate the sending away of Turkish genocide denier Sacan to place 53 of the PvdA candidate list, but neither they like the tuning around position which leader of the Dutch Labour Party Wouter Bos took later. "We may call it genocide, but we have to watch our word. We don't know whether it matches the juridical sense of the word genocide yet, like in genocide treaties. But also Armenians (of course) and many Dutch voted for other parties, like Christian Union (who launched the genocide recognition motion in 2004)," he said.