Amnesty International Accuses Germany Of Failing To Fight Racism

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JAKARTA - Human rights organizations (HAM) Amnesty International published a report saying Germany was not making enough efforts to fight systematic racism and did not understand the cause adequately.

Reports submitted in Berlin identified a number of structural issues, including methods taken by the police in dealing with hate crimes and repairs to colonial crimes.

German Amnesty's Secretary-General Julia Duchrow explained that Germany was committed to protecting all people from discrimination and racial violence around the 1960s.

"However, authorities have failed many times," he stressed, referring to a series of right-wing extremist killings carried out by the National Socialist Underground (NSA) terrorist group and racist attacks in the cities of Munich, Halle and Hanau in Germany.

Duchrow said: "The country's discrimination, such as the prohibition of wearing the headscarf for Muslim women in the public sector or the total ban on solidarity demonstrations for Palestine, must be handled in the same way as discrimination and violence committed by non-state actors."

The organization accuses German police of having racist stereotypes through categoricals such as "the criminality of the clan."

Amnesty International called for racism in law enforcement to be investigated and steps taken to overcome it.

Germany must ensure that all allegations of racist police behavior are investigated independently and consistently punished. These efforts will require steps to establish an independent complaint office both at the federal and state levels.