Sarkozy crosses the border
In France, president Sarkozy and his government introduced a law proposal which will make to illegally deny the mass murder genocide of Armenians in 1915 was the genocide. The proposal has been not unexpected at all and caused some commotion, annoyance, angry both in Turkey and among the French people of Turkish origin.
Have you ever, dear readers, heard of the Khojaly massacre of February 25-26, 1992? Or do you have any idea where on earth Khojaly might be?
Khojaly was a small village with a population of approximately 2,000 people in Nagorno-Karabakh, the disputed enclave between Azerbaijan and Armenia. After the immigration wave at the start of 1990, nevertheless, its population increased to almost 6,000. First came the Meskhetian Turks who were deported during the World War II to Central Asia by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and then Azeri families which were sent packing from Hankendi (Stepanakert) by the Armenians.
