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German prince Georg Freidrich is no pauper April 12, 2021 10:48 AM CDT By Victor Grossman
The prince wants to take over the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam, Germany, the site where the Soviet Union, Britain and the U.S. negotiated the end to World War II. | Wikimedia (CC)
BERLIN The Prince is no pauper but it seems the poor fellow has problems with his crown jewels. And this is no simple little private problem, to be expected with princes! Nor is this handsomely smiling, youngish man, who hardly looks his 44 years, itching only for jewels. He also wants hundreds or even a few thousand fine jewelry cases, delicate porcelain and glass objects, portraits of martial Prussian generals, sculptures, even a decorative sword or two.
Kunduz massacre goes unpunished
In February, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg dismissed the appeal of Abdul Hanan, a farmer from Kunduz, against the Federal Republic of Germany over a 2009 massacre in Afghanistan. Hanan, who also appeared on behalf of his village, had filed the complaint alleging inadequate judicial investigation of the deaths of his two sons, who were eight and twelve years old when they were killed.
The two children, Abdul Bayan and Nesarullah, and more than a hundred other people (the exact number has not yet been firmly established), most of them civilians, were killed on 4 September 2009 when two US warplanes bombed a crowd that had gathered around two stalled tankers on a sandbank of the Kunduz River. The order for the attack had been given by Col. Georg Klein of the Bundeswehr (Armed Forces)|.
ECHR backs Germany, ISAG over Taliban-hijacked tanker bombings in Afghanistan s Kunduz republicworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from republicworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.