18.00 Uhr Anleger Vorsetzen (U Baumwall)
What has piracy to do with the international fish theft off Somalia’s coast? Who is using Somalia’s waterways as a rubbish dump? What is the story about the weapons on the hijacked “MS Faina”? Who are these young men from Somalia? What does “safety” mean in the Gulf of Aden? The criminal trial before the Landesgericht Hamburg is all about legal matters. In cooperation with the Hamburg group kein mensch ist illegal our harbour round trip will shed light on the political background.
30 June 2011
29 June 2011
Exhibition and Films on the Postcolonial History in Hamburg 21.6-14.7.11
POST-COLONIAL METROPOLIS HAMBURG
ON THE TRAIL OF (NEO)COLONIAL REALITIES
EXHIBITION 21 JUNE -14 JULY 2011
HAMBURG UNIVERSITY
PFERDESTALL FOYER, ALLENDE-PLATZ 1
The metropolis Hamburg presents itself with charm and open to the world. This image is contradicted by the city’s colonial and racist past, as well as its post-colonial present. Exploitation, structural hierarchies and racism are closely connected with our colonial past. The structures of society , the use of language or the topographies of a city are not coincidental!
In the exhibition historical developments will be linked with our present-day reality. We will be searching for traces of (neo)colonialism in Hamburg, as well as in our own constructions of identity.
23 June 2011
The trial so far
What happened so far
Since November 22, 2010 ten Somali men have been standing trial in Hamburg. They are charged with having hijacked the freighter “MV Taipan” in the Indian Ocean and demanding ransom over Easter 2010.
The Taipan was sailing under German flag and the men were captured by a special unit of the Dutch navy – although no one has been able to tell the court of who actually ordered them to do so. The ten men were chained to the railing on the Dutch frigate “Tromp” for several days and interrogated – voluntary statements, according to the Dutch crew. The commander of the Tromp insists that they didn't arrest the men, they merely 'found' them on board the Taipan – which raises the question of how they ended up in a court if they were never arrested.
Since November 22, 2010 ten Somali men have been standing trial in Hamburg. They are charged with having hijacked the freighter “MV Taipan” in the Indian Ocean and demanding ransom over Easter 2010.
The Taipan was sailing under German flag and the men were captured by a special unit of the Dutch navy – although no one has been able to tell the court of who actually ordered them to do so. The ten men were chained to the railing on the Dutch frigate “Tromp” for several days and interrogated – voluntary statements, according to the Dutch crew. The commander of the Tromp insists that they didn't arrest the men, they merely 'found' them on board the Taipan – which raises the question of how they ended up in a court if they were never arrested.
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