Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt

Today I read that the Chinese city of Nanjing — better known in America as Nanking — severed its sister-city relationship with Nagoya, Japan, because the mayor of Nagoya expressed doubts that the atrocities known as the Rape of Nanking actually happened.

A few days ago, the French Senate passed a law to criminalize the denial of “officially recognized genocides,” including the mass murder of Armenians during World War I, which prompted outrage in Turkey, where the Armenian genocide is officially denied.

And I recently discovered that