Cluster: Swiss Identity

Report tells human story of Jewish refugees

This content was published on Dec 10, 1999 The international panel on the Swiss refugee policy during World War II details the human suffering of Jews turned back at the border. The Bergier panel says in its report that the stories of individual refugees are important for an evaluation of the impact of Switzerland’s official refugee policy at the time. In the following…

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Why a commission to probe Swiss refugee policy?

This content was published on Dec 9, 1999 The Bergier commission of experts, set up by the Swiss authorities, has been investigating Switzerland’s wartime history since 1996. After initial quibbling about its composition, the government set up the nine-member historians’ commission under the leadership of Professor Jean-Francois Bergier (picture). Four of the members came from the United States, Britain, Israel and Poland and…

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Switzerland awaits verdict on World War II refugee policy

This content was published on Dec 9, 1999

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Berne museum stages “sound and art”

This content was published on Dec 9, 1999

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Bosnian group learns about Swiss police work

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999

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Zurich opera back in the black

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999 Despite pessimistic predictions about its financial future, Zurich’s opera is back in the black, making a profit of SFr148,000 ($95,000) in the past financial year. The management, presenting the results of the 1998/99 season, said on Wednesday that the profit was largely due to more arts and culture subsidies and increased sponsorship contracts. While the…

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Credit Suisse unit indicted by Japan prosecutors

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999 In the strongest action ever against a foreign financial firm doing business in Japan, Tokyo prosecutors said on Wednesday they had indicted the London headquarters of Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP) for violation of the nation’s banking laws. But CSFP denied having obstructed an audit. The prosecutors also indicted Shinji Yamada, former head of CSFP’s…

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Switzerland ratifies U.N. genocide convention

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999 The Swiss parliament has ratified the U.N. genocide convention, which has already been ratified by 129 other nations and is one of the most broadly-accepted international conventions. The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted unanimously to adopt the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It was approved by the U.N.…

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Lawyer for Swiss-American boy plans to sue authorities

This content was published on Dec 8, 1999 (AP) — A lawyer for Raoul Wüthrich, a Swiss-American boy jailed on suspicion of incest and freed when a judge dismissed the charges, has served papers indicating the 11-year-old’s family plans to sue authorities in Colorado over his arrest. Vincent Todd, the Wüthrich family’s Lakewood attorney, said Tuesday that he filed copies of a notice…

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Parliament to finalise new dormant account legislation

This content was published on Dec 7, 1999 The Swiss parliament is facing the task of finalising new legislation that once and for all will make clear how dormant accounts are to be handled. The urgency of the matter has been underlined by the newly-published Volcker report. The report by the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons – a panel chaired by former U.S.…

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