COLONIAL REPERCUSSIONS - Panel "Legal interventions against (post-)colonial crimes"
Channel: Akademie der Künste
Date: 27/01/2018

Symposium I "(Post-)Colonial Injustice and Legal Interventions" of the "Colonial Repercussions/Koloniales Erbe" event series at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (26 and 27 January 2018)

The European governments engaged in violence on a massive scale during formal colonial rule and, later, in order to prevent independence and the full attainment of self-determination, autonomy and sovereignty of local peoples. Great Britain brutally repressed the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and, in Algeria, people were systematically tortured and murdered. The involvement of Belgium in the assassination of Congolese President Patrice Lumumba still remains unexplained. Relatives of those murdered in Indonesia successfully sued for compensation in the Netherlands. Victims of the Mau Mau uprising have been awarded compensation in Great Britain. Which legal interventions were successful and how can they support the reappraisal of other colonial crimes? How can we explain the fact that the remains of murder victims and looted cultural objects are still stored in German archives?

Liesbeth Zegveld (Lawyer, Prakken d’Oliveira, Netherlands) 
Christophe Marchand (Lawyer, Cabinet d’avocats Jus Cogens, Belgium)
Mnyaka Sururu Mboro (Mchagga Teacher and Activist, Berlin Postkolonial e. V.,  Germany / Tanzania) 
Christian Bommarius (Journalist and Author, Germany)
Moderation: Claire Tixeire (Lawyer, ECCHR, Germany)

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