Oct 27 2006
Archive for October, 2006
Oct 27 2006
Dutch East India Company
Latest developments in the Netherlands
we cannot make anymore jokes about Islam,
we force a manufacturer in the Netherlands to drop the name of his product, ‘negerzoen’, which he used for 86 years but has been used more than 200 years in Europe,
we drop the name jodenkoek for another product with the same kind of history,
and now [...]
Oct 27 2006
Remembering the fire at the Schiphol detention center
Last year on the 26th of October a fire broke out in the detention center at Schiphol. Unfortunately 11 people died in that fire. An investigation was started and concluded that the fire had started in of the cells of a detainee. Due to misfortune and inadequate training of the staff present the fire was [...]