Author: Pieter Tesch
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“˜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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...