Pieter Tesch

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Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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 people and people in other countries, may be an acceptable hyperbole in an ordinary courtroom but it is unacceptable for ICC prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo to use such language in [...]

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Friday, June 13th, 2008

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 Dutch political scientist Job van Amerongen warned the left liberal chattering classes against stirring up hysteria, that Wilders was leading the Dutch back into the darkest days of the [...]

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