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Author: Pieter Tesch

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  • Politics
    By Pieter Tesch
    August 16, 2010
    2005
    2

    New Borders Leave the Pastoralist a Stranger in His Own Land

    If Sudan’s domestic partitionists and their foreign backers have their way there will be a new border in Africa by the same time next year that ...
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  • Politics
    By Pieter Tesch
    July 17, 2010
    1950
    0

    Prosecutor’s African Roadshow Keeps on Muddling Through

    If the implications were not so seriously fatal one would not begrudge the Argentinean bruiser and striker of the ICC team Luis Moreno-Ocampo aka “˜Ocambo’ to ...
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  • Politics
    By Pieter Tesch
    August 17, 2009
    2113
    0

    The Legacy and Consequences of the Crimes of (Afro) Stalinism

    While previously in the genocide debate it has been stressed that the ultimate Nazi crime is that of the Shoah of European Jewry and therefore the ...
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  • Politics
    By Pieter Tesch
    July 25, 2009
    1694
    0

    The Road To Hell (In Africa) Is Paved With Good (Western) Intentions

    The victory of retired general and former acting president Mohamed Ould Abelaziz in the 18 July presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is another ...
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  • Politics
    By Pieter Tesch
    June 27, 2009
    6324
    41

    “˜Genocide Industry’ has Hidden Agenda

    “˜Attempts at equalising historical wrongs are often aimed at Holocaust obfuscation’ Lessons for Darfur from an unfortunately not-enough-known Nazi versus Stalinist crimes debate in Europe. The ...
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  • Politics
    By Pieter Tesch
    June 23, 2008
    1699
    0

    Ocampo’s Hyperbole at the Security Council

    The description of the entire Darfur region as a “crime scene” and comparing the Sudanese government with the “Nazi regime” acting with impunity attacking its own ...
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  • Politics
    By Pieter Tesch
    June 13, 2008
    2291
    0

    Abusing “Genocide”: Why Comparisons with the Holocaust Mislead

    Earlier this year in the run up to the release of the anti Islam “˜film’ Fitna by the Dutch maverick right-wing politician Geert Wilders, the leading ...
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