Political Goals and Stategies
The STPI places the fight against genocide, forced migration, racism, all forms of minority oppression, and deportation of refugees in their country of origin as the center of their work. Their themes include the cultural and religious groupings like the Falun Gong in China, the Christian minorities in Iran, or ethnic groups like the Roma or Chechen. The STPI lobbys politicians and uses letter writing campaigns to apply pressure for its causes.
The STPI has always maintained that forced migration of people is wrong even when the victims belong to a group of people who were the perpetrators of a war or another grave infringement of international law. In connection with this the STP has advocated for a Centre against Expulsions and thereby has incurred the same criticism as the project of such a center itself.
The STP_Germany has in special situations supported military interventions and invasion/intrusion. Much criticism has been given to the STP for its advocacy of the NATO intervention in Kosovo War in 1999. In 2006 the STP supported the protection of elections in the Congo by the German military.
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