In their own words Constant Kusters was 1989 active within the extreme right. Around this time, he celebrated so its twentieth anniversary. There are still some Dutch right-wing extremists who sustained two decades, but many are not there. While many right-wing extremists after a shorter or longer time drop off because the infighting, the gossip and internal… Read more
De Nederlands Volksunie doet in Arnhem mee met een lijst van drie kandidaten. Lijsttrekker is partij-voorzitter Constant Kusters. Op de tweede plaats staat Kusters’ jeugdvriend Lodewijk Faber en plaats drie wordt bezet door Kusters’ voetveeg Chris Smit. Constant Kusters is lijsttrekker en voorzitter van de NVU. Begin jaren 90 he was active in the circle… Read more
The Limburg NCE activist Ger Haan (1969) is 1 juni veroordeeld tot 4½ jaar cel door de rechtbank in Aken. Haan was rond 1998 actief in de NVU en de Duitse JN (Junge Nationaldemokraten) en speelde in de band Kieckers Fünfte Kolonne (#1). In december 1998 schoot hij vijf keer op zijn ex-vriendin, a Cologne… Read more
In its efforts to meet the real politics to participate Vlaams Blok has lately should leave some feathers. Especially on the far right wing of the party rumbling lot. Concessions does the Bloc to the established parties after the municipal elections 1999 bring to govern… Read more
In the fifth reporting Monitoring racism and the extreme right are the years 2001 and - where possible - 2002 central. The attacks on the United States 11 september 2001 and the murder of Pim Fortuyn 6 May 2002 have had a significant impact on the overall picture of this reporting period. Both events have left deep marks on the interethnic relations in the Netherlands. These traces can be found in the fifth reporting. It is questions like: increases or decreases the number of racist violence in Netherlands? Which right-wing political parties have disappeared and which come in its place? The number of discrimination cases that reaches the public prosecutor or decreases? And what be provided there for business and to what extent that lead to convictions? The initiative for the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right is the mid-nineties taken by the Leiden University. The monitoring project is now jointly conducted by Leiden University and the Anne Frank. This report was made possible with support from the Management Integration and Coordination Minorities of the Ministry of Justice.
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Every year brings the Anne Frank Foundation and Leiden University Monitor
Racism and Extreme Right off. The fourth report – Jaap van Donselaar
en Peter Rodrigues – appeared at the end 2001. These are all forms of
racism, not only anti-Semitism. The researchers note an "increase
the number of violent incidents and the increase also applies in comparison
with previous years. The average over the last five years more than 300,
while the five-year average in the previous monitoring report still below 250
lag’. The report counts over the years 1999 en 2000 a total number of incidents
respectively 345 en 406. They also suggest a hardening fixed: "Remarkable in
years 1999 en 2000 the trend is to a certain degree of hardening of the
violence, that is to say: in comparison with previous years, we see
multiple targeted violence. Anti-Semitic violence takes on meaning
to…The far-right perpetrators is more forward than in the
previous period, all the numerically involves a relatively small part of
the whole…..Many incidents in the years 1999 en 2000 hold in any way
relation to asylum. Not only AZCs are often targeted by
violence, but also individual asylum seekers'.
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Is there in our country evidence of increasing or decreasing racial violence? How is it with the tolerance in the Netherlands? Has the local policy against discrimination catering success or keep the number of complaints? To answer these questions it is important that research is conducted to periodically monitor the manifestations of racial discrimination and extreme right. This interest is mid-nineties recognized by the University of Leiden and there is the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right developed. Currently the project is implemented by the Leiden University in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation and with support from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Research Monitor is an internationally recognized tool for the detection of racism and discrimination, and developing policies against. In 1999 was in Vienna the European Monitoring Centre on Racism
Xenophobia and start. The Vienna Observatory seeks to follow developments in the European Union and analyzed using national monitoring centers. The project Monitoring racism and the extreme right is an important source for the supply of data to the European Monitoring Centre. In the European Directive 29 juni 2000 equal treatment of persons on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin is also included a monitor provision: after the conclusion of the national regulatory (physical appearance) 2003 shall, with effect from 2005 every five years report to be done on the effectiveness of those national measures.
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The map of the extreme right in the Netherlands compared to 1999 not much
change. The world of the far right is divided into political parties,
organizations and groups.
Parties are the Centre Democrats, de Nieuwe Nationale Partij (NNP) and
Nederlands Blok. The NNP is the most active and trying to "clean’ slogans
accretion to find. The NNP arose when after the schism within CP'86
extreme right threatened to fall apart.
For organizations Post and the National Platform for Action Nationalist
Students (LANS). In Outpost mainly ex-members of CP'86, as Marcel
Routes, Tim Mudde, Marc by Marc de Boer Hoogstra, active. CP'86 was in 1998
forbidden.
Neo-Nazi groups are the Action Front National Socialists (ANS), of
Fundamentalist Workers Party (FAP) and the Dutch People's Union (NVU,
National Offensive and the new offshoot: the Stormfront. The
National Offensive otherwise hardly exists. The most famous neo
in the Netherlands is still Constant Kusters.
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How intolerant towards native Dutch immigrants? Almost
25 year assesses the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP) public opinion on
immigrants and publishes regularly about. In the late eighties, early
ninety we see a slight hardening of the climate of opinion, but according to the
SCP there are generally few changes. Just About 80% of the
population thinks that natives and immigrants should have equal treatment
have at distribution issues, such as housing and employment.
Just About 13% of the indigenous population rejects
immigrants. Just About 50% of the indigenous population is against immigration
opposed.
Regarding this last NIPO found in 1998 a different outcome:1 not
half, but three-quarters of the native Dutch against further
Immigration opposed. There is - according to the NIPO - a growing support for
immigration restrictions while confidence in integration and
adjustment of immigrants decreases. NIPO found this trend going on
Polls in the years 1993, 1995 en 1998.
Eind 1999 showed another NIPO survey, one third of the Dutch
opposes the granting of asylum to political or economic
vluchtelingen.2 thirds of the Dutch have supported policies
government for political refugees who fear for their own country
their lives to give asylum. About half of the respondents felt that
seekers give nuisance. Further thought about forty percent that asylum seekers
on average, are more criminal than Dutch.
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Extreme right was in the elections 1998 almost completely wiped out.
After the local extreme right shows yet 2 of the 88 seats
having maintained: 1 for the CD in Rotterdam Schiedam and 1 for the
Dutch Block in Utrecht. In the parliamentary elections of May lose
only representative of the extreme right, the Centre Democrats are three
seats. This does not mean that all known far-right organizations
overview of 1998 still exist and – some more than others – active
zijn, except CP'86 in November 1998 was banned.
Dr. J. Donselaar goes into its third monitoring report published this month
elaborate on the map of the extreme right in the Netherlands. Far-right
parties are the Centre Democrats, de Nieuwe Nationale Partij (NNP) and
Nederlands Blok, De CD nam in 1999 the European elections with
a combined list: CD / Conservative Democrats. Conservative
Democrats was an attempt by CD leader Janmaat to a new name
CD again to revive. The NNP is trying to "clean’ extreme right
slogans the extreme right framework to unite among themselves. The NNP
then arose after the schism within CP'86 extreme right threatened to set
to fall.
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2.1 Extreme right
After the fiasco in the elections to the local councils and the House of the extreme right is only sporadically manifested. Informal consultation with board members of different parties, intended to join forces and ultimately to the formation of a new party, led by mutual distrust fail to agree. There are no indications that the Centre Party '86, after being declared banned and disbanded, its activities in secrecy continues.
Neo-Nazis in our country are organized in Action Front National Socialists, The FAP-labor party and the Dutch People's Union. It involves small groups without frame, which differ only in name and in fact constitute a whole. The three leaders function as a triumvirate, which maintains frequent contact with kindred spirits in Belgium and Germany. The average very youthful supporters know course and includes balance still no more than a few dozen people, which predominantly are inactive. The expectation is that far-right groups in the Netherlands for the time being will be a marginal phenomenon, given the animosity between the organizations, their ramshackle structures and showed resistance in society against the ideology.
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This is the second report of the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right, that was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The monitoring project has two main objectives:
1. monitor racism and the extreme right: the observation of these phenomena in the Netherlands, as well as the government response to these phenomena; periodic reporting, in two ways:
(a) 'General report': a general reporting on the basis of a fixed pattern;
(b) a floor battle ': reporting to a special subject is exposed.
2. The periodicity of the project means that displays a general report in one year and the other a 'floor battle'. The first report of 1997 was a general, which involves a broad picture of the phenomena of racism and the extreme right in the Netherlands, as well as government responses. Also those of the coming year (1999) a general report will be. This present second report is devoted to a special’ subject matter: the relationship between the media and also racism and the extreme right.
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2.1.1 Extreme right
Extreme right-wing organizations in 1997 less often -through demonstrations or otherwise- sought the public than in 1996. Also in the same year was already a decrease in the number of public operations in comparison with 1995.
The Centre Party '86 (CP'86), remainder of the NVP / CP'86 end 1996 fell apart, is in 1997 undeniable hit in neo-Nazi fairway. The main board of the party took part several times in meetings and demonstrations of neo-Nazis in Belgium and Denmark. They collaborate with kindred spirits of the FAP Workers Party, The Dutch People's Union and the Action Front National Socialists and maintain regular contact with like-minded people in Belgium and Germany. CP'86 is poorly organized and has no more than a few dozen members, primarily living in the Rijnmond area. The total number of organized neo-Nazis in our country and outside CP'86 is estimated at less than fifty.
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This is the first report of the project Monitoring racism and the extreme right that was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior. Under 'racism’ are also understood: antisemitisme, rasvooroordeel, Xenophobia, xenophobia en rasdiscriminatie. The monitor works are not exclusively focused on racist, but also to combat these phenomena.
The project has two objectives:
1. Permanent monitoring of racism and anti-racism
2. periodic reporting on the key findings
The utility of periodic reporting has many. Annually took stock based on a fixed pattern of the main manifestations of racism and right-wing extremism, and the development of strategies to combat. The reports can contribute by their systematic and periodic character of accumulation of knowledge and insights. It provides insight into developments that occur in the longer term. This applies not only to the past period but also the future.
The monitor can contribute to early identification of relevant, new developments.
The overall research question is:
1. How are expressions of (racist) right-wing extremism (in Nederland) developed?
2. which patterns of response have been there?
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2.1.1 Racism and violence emptying immigrants
Commissioned by the BVD performed two scientific research investigating the causes of racism and anti-immigrant violence in Netherlands.
Scientific Research- en Documentatiecentrum (WODC) the Ministry of Justice studied based file analysis of the nature and extent of such violence in 1994 and researched the motives of perpetrators.
The Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law at the University of Utrecht conducted participant observation order youth to identify racist tendencies within youth cultures. The results of both studies are in May 1997 announced.
In parallel to these trials registers the BVD violent incidents directed against members of ethnic minority groups. Although the statistical material available is incomplete, The conclusion seems justified that the number of incidents, in comparison with 1995, are not or hardly increased. Perhaps there is a connection to the decline of extreme right, as shown by election results and the decrease in membership. This trend is also noticeable in Germany. There is a dramatic reduction in the number of incidents recorded.
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2. 1.1 Racism and anti-immigrant violence
In order to gain a better understanding of the underlying causes of racism and anti-immigrant violence in Netherlands, is given a research assignment at two scientific institutions. Scientific Research- en Documentatiecentrum (WODC) the Ministry of Justice studies based on case analysis and discussion rounds the motives of perpetrators of racist violence.
A study by the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law at the University of Utrecht is through participant observation on the backgrounds of racist aggression by youths. Both studies have been started and have a policy supporting character. In both studies, set its advisory committees, which is represented expertise from Netherlands.
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