Social Science Research Council

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 term of genocide should remain clearly defined and not loosely used, and certainly not abused for political motives, in relation to events in the present as well as in [...]

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 slap in the face of the EU’s Africa policy, but a vindication of AU regional diplomacy forcing domestic opponents to sit together and hammer out an agreement.
If Commissioner Louis [...]

‘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 ‘genocide’ activists who cried the expected howls following the Washington Post’s ‘Sudan’s ‘coordinated’ genocide in Darfur is over’ (18 June) report and the ABC news story (broadcast 17 June), ‘US envoy: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]