Posts Tagged ‘Germany’
Why German homeschoolers get asylum and torture survivors don’t
I don’t know, actually. Maybe Uwe Romeike got lucky? Maybe asylum is starting to change? Maybe judges like evangelicals? Or white people better than black people? Or maybe we just really, <em>really</em> hate the European Court of Human Rights?
In late January, A US immigration judge in Memphis, Tenn., recently granted asylum to a German [...]
You don't get to be 15 years on the lam from genocide charges without being clever…
Here’s an update on the FDLR web page story, a short online piece for the Christian Science Monitor.
Germany to FDLR: "Page not found"
It’s not like the FDLR web page was any big secret. The Hutu militia still active in eastern Congo, and viewed by most as the central cause of the ongoing conflict, has had a web presence for years. The UN wrote about it in their December 2008 experts report. The president of [...]
Rwanda and Germany face off
Germany yesterday arrested a top Rwandan government official, and Rwanda is outraged. Rose Kabuye, a member of Parliament, was arrested while traveling through Frankfurt. But it’s not the Germans who want her; it’s the French, who two years ago indicted 9 advisers to Paul Kagame for conspiring to shoot down the plane of [...]
Quasi-lands time zones forgot
They are airports. I have never liked layovers—I can’t think of anyone who does—but I like to think I have always been rather stoic about them. Four hours in Chicago here, five hours in San Francisco there.
But there’s nothing like the America-Africa layover. It is a marathon in lethargy, painful enough to [...]
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