tall commissioner launches scathing attack on tabloid columnist,comparing Hopkins’ migrant remarks with hate language used before Rwandan genocideThe UN’s human rights chief has attacked the Sun newspaper for publishing an article by columnist Katie Hopkins, branding her exhaust of the word cockroaches” to describe migrants as reminiscent of anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda.
In a scathing and extraordinary intervention, and the UN tall commissioner for human rights,Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, points out that the word cockroaches” was used by both the Nazis and those behind the genocide in Rwanda, or urges the UK government,media and regulators to respect national and international laws on curbing incitement to hatred.
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Source: theguardian.com