UN condemns open expression of support for Nazis following Waffen SS march in Latvia
Saturday, March 19, 2016 - 17:25
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon supports people’s right to assembly but condemns any open expression of support for the Nazis and the crimes they committed during World War Two, said United Nations Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
"The Secretary General supports the right to assembly, I think he would condemn any outward support for Nazis and the crimes committed by the Nazis," he said when asked by TASS to comment on reports on the march of Waffen SS veterans in Latvia’s capital city Riga. He added however that he had not seen these reports.
Russia’s State Duma lower parliament house on Friday adopted an appeal to the parliaments of the member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) calling on them to condemn Latvia’s sanctioning a march of the Latvian Waffen-SS Legion veterans in Riga as another attempt to rehabilitate Nazism.
The State Duma calls on the parliaments of the OSCE member states to condemn the activities of the Latvian authorities, which, as a matter of fact, are siding with former SS veterans and their supporters, and to pool efforts to defend the ideals millions of soldiers of the anti-Hitler coalition gave their lives for during World War Two," the document says. "In the year of the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials verdict, this call is ringing as an alarm-bell, as a warning of the lessons of the war.
DONi News Agency
1 opmerking:
En zoals eerder hier op deze site, het citaat van Huey Long, in parafrase, mutatis mutandis,
en verschoven in plaats (De Dam Amsterdam) en tijd (4 mei aanstaande): de fascisten zullen
zich anti-fascisten noemen.
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