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Nagorno-Karabakh War
The European Union and especially the German Federal Government remain true to themselves: The Turkish-Azerbaijani War of aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh as well as the only temporarily reduced aggression against Greece and Cyprus, the fight against the Turkish opposition – all this should continue to be rewarded with money and appreciation:
We can only solve the special challenge of migration (...) together with Turkey. (...) Therefore, it is important to me to emphasize that Turkey deserves great recognition for its achievements. That is why I am committed to revitalizing and further developing the EU-Turkey Declaration.
Government statement by Chancellor Angela Merkel on 25.03.21 in the German Bundestag
Thus, dealing with the autocrat Erdogan is one of the many chapters of a misguided foreign policy towards the states of North Africa and the Middle East: stability and peace are the main thing – even if it is a graveyard peace. The Journalist Jörg Armbruster written.
Meanwhile, in Armenia, a dramatic power struggle has erupted between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and representatives of the previous government, who blame him for the devastating defeat. Pashinyan counters that oligarchy and corruption have weakened the small country. On June 20th Early parliamentary elections are now to take place.
Why did Germany remain so reserved in the face of a war of aggression that claimed thousands of lives? The Union's Azerbaijan affair could be a significant part of the inglorious answer .
Murder of Hrant Dink
Turkey actually has some – or so it is said – Those behind the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink sentenced, all high-ranking former police officers. The reason for the life sentences in Erdogan's dictatorship is likely that the perpetrators currently being exposed to the public are considered members of the Gülen movement and thus no longer under the regime's protection. Hrant Dink's family and friends remain extremely skeptical, and for good reason:
No investigations were conducted at all against the Istanbul governor's office and officials of the Turkish intelligence service MIT.
Hakan Bakircioglu, lawyer for the Dink family, told Deutsche Welle
Hrant Dink had dared to speak in Turkey about the Volkermord an den Armenian as well as the question of whether the adopted daughter of the Turkish state founder Kemal Atatürk was actually of Armenian origin.
Genocide in Rwanda
Readers of the shocking book “Handshake with the devil“ by the Canadian UN commander Romeo Dallaire about the genocide of 800.000 people in Rwanda that took place before his eyes in 1994 within a few days will not have been surprised: a few days ago, a comprehensive report A commission of historians appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron concluded that France shared responsibility for the genocide.
France unconditionally supported the ethnic racism of then Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and his violent regime, thereby contributing to the genocide.
Report led by Vincent Duclert, quoted from tagesschau.de
Critics point out that, given the Mitterrand government's massive involvement and military support during the genocide, "shared responsibility" falls far short of what is actually at stake: complicity. The rest of Europe and the United States behaved with restraint or even disinterest during the genocide. Til todayThe kidnapping of the film hero of “Hotel Rwanda”, Paul Rusesabagina, in Dubai and his deportation to Rwanda for a show trial were only given marginal attention.
Herbert Quandt Media Prize
In 2011, the author of these lines reported for the ZDF heute-journal on the Nazi involvement of the later "BMW savior" and model entrepreneur Herbert Quandt. The outstanding ARD documentary "The Silence of the Quandts" first exposed the crimes of Herbert Quandt and his father Günther Quandt to a broader public in 2007. The renaming of the the “Herbert-Quandt-Straße” discussedAccording to Google Maps, Dingolfing, Göttingen, and Hildesheim could also consider this.
The “Johanna Quandt Foundation”, named after Herbert Quandt’s third wife, whose board of trustees the son and major BMW shareholder Stefan Quandt chaired, despite previously expressed “Shame” and commissioned study to this day unimpressed by the Herbert Quandt Media Prize “in memory of the personality and life’s work of the entrepreneur Dr. hc Herbert Quandt” with grateful recipients in German media houses and broadcasting companies – after all, €50.000 is distributed every year.
The Foundation’s Board of Trustees, which also serves as the jury for the Concentration camp plannerThe panel also currently includes Phoenix's program director Michaela Kolster, former RTL editor-in-chief Tanit Koch, Capital's editor-in-chief Horst von Buttlar, and NZZ Germany's managing director Jan-Eric Peters.
Nominated in 2021 are publications from BR, DLF, HR, NDR, SR, ZDF, Capital, netzpolitik.org, Hamburger Abendblatt, Nordkurier, brandeins and taz. Of course, not their two articles from the years 2019 and 2020 from the author of this roundup about the Nazi entrepreneurs Quandt.
Addendum from 09.04.21: The taz announces in response to an inquiry that its already nominated authors have now withdrawn their application for this year's Herbert Quandt Media Prize.
China and its concentration camps
After the disturbing reports about the dark truth behind Chinese transplant medicine There is further research on the concentration camps in Xinjiang.
The BBC reports, based on several sources, that in addition to severe mistreatment of camp inmates, medical tests and forced sterilizations are also carried out on them.
They underwent unexplained medical tests, took pills, and were forcibly injected every 15 days with a “vaccine” that brought on nausea and numbness. Women were forcibly fitted with IUDs or sterilized.
Eyewitness to BBC
Meanwhile, a CNN reporter team has been searching for the missing Children of Uyghurs who are persecuted by the regime just as ruthlessly and interned in camps as adults. 50 international experts agree in a study: All UN criteria for genocide have been met.
Of course, much of this was already known, while the Chancellor, in great haste at the end of last year, just in time before the new US President took office, comprehensive investment agreement the EU has launched with China.
The Quandts will be pleased.
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