Last words from Petra Kelly. (March 1992 talk with the late German Green Party founder) (Interview)

From: The Progressive | Date: January 1, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Kelly was found shot to death in her Bonn home in Oct '92. She expressed concerns about Chinese human rights violations in Tibet and fears about rising German nativist intolerance.

When I talked with Petra Kelly last spring, German unification was entering its second year and violence in the eastern half of the country had not yet reached a fever pitch. But eastern Germans were already beginning to feel like second-class citizens; vicious jokes about them were becoming commonplace. And Chancellor Helmut Kohl's promise that there wouldn't be a tax increase on western Germans to help ...

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