What_could_be_more_British_than_that?

[IlonaM]

Hi there!

Tomorrow is the 70th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Trials.

Today, we tell the story of David Maxwell Fyfe, a Conservative politician who went from prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg to playing a key role in the creation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

This new 2-minute animation has been made by brilliant MA students at the Met Film School for RightsInfo.

See the film here: http://rightsinfo.org/human-rights-british/

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We would love it if you could tweet this:

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The post is here: https://www.facebook.com/RightsInfo/videos/1828537720711668/

Thanks and have a great weekend,

The RightsInfo team

[Alan Medic]

I really have no idea where you came up with that question. Is an interest in Human Rights a particularly British thing?

[DulwichFox]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I really have no idea where you came up with that

> question. Is an interest in Human Rights a

> particularly British thing?

Especially as it was the British that first created Consentration Camps during The Boar War.

The British soldiers also burned down the Boers' houses and farms, and destroyed all the crops they could find

Around 26,000 women and children died in these camps from disease and starvation..

DulwichFox

[rendelharris]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> I really have no idea where you came up with that

> question. Is an interest in Human Rights a

> particularly British thing?

I presume they're referring to the fact that the government wants to take us out of the ECHR as being some nasty foreign concept (even though we were instrumental in drawing it up) that allows terrorists to live in taxpayer subsidised penthouses in Mayfair.

[Jenny1]

I think the film answers the question very well.

[Jenny1]

...by which I mean it makes it quite clear that it's referring to the British role during and after Nuremberg in forming current concepts of international human rights. And yes, I imagine they've chosen to highlight this issue now not only to mark the anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials but also to focus all our minds on this country's future approach to human rights.