The UN “Convention on Genocide” excludes cultural destruction as a marker for genocide, to avoid a vague use of the term “culture.” But culture is not a fuzzy concept. It identifies peoples.
Testimonies collected on the ground by the European Bangladesh Forum confirm scholarly studies, calling on the international community, and by extension the UN, to recognize an overlooked truth.
The new Security Minister dismissed an officer strictly connected with an expansive definition of victims and anti-cult campaigns. Why?
At the 2024 National Peace Symposium in London, he said that religion is not the cause of war, but the solution.
France is unique among democratic countries in promoting a state-sponsored anti-cult ideology, based on discredited theories of “brainwashing” and “mind control.”
To understand what happened to MISA it is crucial to reflect on the anti-cult role of the controversial governmental agency.
The story they told a leading Canadian scholar is that in the police stations the yoga students’ rights were repeatedly violated.
When the heavily armed officers entered the residences of the yogis they terrorized everybody, alleged perpetrators and alleged “victims.”
The authorities claim “women” have been “liberated” from a “sex cult.” A well-known Canadian scholar interviewed the “victims” and was told a different story.
Bivolaru was once sentenced for a sexual relationship with her when she was 17. She denies it ever happened—and says she has been offered € 350,000 to change her story.