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Financial Crisis: Jean Ziegler calls "Nuremberg Trials" for bankers
by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 28 October 2008Trade-Exchange Rates Economy-budget
Financial Crisis: Jean Ziegler calls "Nuremberg Trials" for bankers
Claudio Habicht
The controversial Geneva sociologist provides again for sedition. He hopes that those responsible for the crisis before an international court.
The Geneva sociologist and former SP is a member of the National Advisory Board of the UN Human Rights Council.
Actually, there should be an interview about his new book, which is the growing hatred of the Third World to the West theme. But Jean Ziegler can be in conversation with the French Webzeitung Rue89 also on the financial crisis - and represents a shocking claim is: "A Nuremberg Tribunal should condemn the crooks, which have caused the crisis." He draws a parallel with the processes in Nuremberg, where the Allies after the capitulation of the Third Reich leading Nazis aburteilten.
Ziegler justifying his claim that the financial crisis of poverty in the Third World strengthens. Those responsible should be charged with crimes against humanity are accused: "All five minutes a child dies of hunger," Ziegler said. The financial crisis is for him but also a great opportunity: He hopes that out of the crisis a "new world" show. "The theory of the legality of capitalism - this jungle of the planet dominated for 15 years - has disbanded." The crisis had neoliberalism runtergerissen the mask: The laws of the market are not unchangeable laws of nature, the privatization of the public sector has failed, the free market creates no greater wealth on the planet.
"White domination is over ’
The "new world", which Ziegler hopes would end hunger in the world mean. And the end of the "massacre" by the West in the Third World causes. "The rule of the whites, only 13 percent of the total world population is too late," says Ziegler. With his call for a tribunal for "arrogant bankers’ Jean Ziegler is once again the whole. Already in 2005 he was heavily criticized when he, in his capacity as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Israeli soldiers in Gaza with a "concentration camp guards of the Nazis’
compared. (Tagesanzeiger.ch News Network)