UNREST RADIO { audio declaration of oppression } — an autonomous space for socio-political documentation of unheard voices.
This podcast focuses on socio-political oppression within German society. Its objective is to reveal unheard voices and unveil stories of racism, human rights violation, power abuse, discrimination and systemic issues (e.g. accommodation, education, food, health care, etc.). Every month we will tune into Unrest Radio to hear pertinent issues.
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February 19, 2020. Hanau, Germany. Nine people murdered at two shisha bars by a white supremacist terrorist. Six years later, on January 10, 2026—just five weeks ago—İbrahim Akkuş became the tenth victim, dying at age 70 from injuries sustained that night.
This chapter examines Hanau as part of a pattern: the National Socialist Underground—NSU murders (10 killed, 2000-2007), Halle (2019), Walter Lübcke (2019), and ongoing racist violence. We look at how warnings were ignored, how the emergency exit was locked (Forensic Architecture investigation showed five people could have survived), how emergency calls went unanswered, and how police initially detained Turkish, Kurdish, and Arab people—not looking for a white supremacist. In 2021, it emerged that 20 elite police officers suspended for being right-wing extremists were the ones who responded in Hanau.
When white Germans kill, they're called "mentally ill" or "lone actors." Tabloids like BILD speculated about "gang wars" and "Muslim milieus." White German society responds to being called racist with more outrage than to the racism itself.
The families formed Initiative 19. Februar Hanau. They demand four things: Remembrance, Justice, Clarification, Consequences. Six years later, Germany gave them monuments and nothing else.
This isn't new. The logic that decides who belongs and who is expendable has roots in Germany's genocidal colonialism in Namibia (1904-1908). Until that's confronted—not just commemorated—the pattern continues.
İbrahim Akkuş's death barely made news. Germany has moved on. The conditions that enabled Hanau remain.
unneutral — from unrest radio
research & commentary: saad shahriar
18 Jan 2026
"Don't Make Everything Political" {unneutral}
"Don't make everything political."
You've heard it. But what does that phrase actually do? And who benefits when we accept it?
This first chapter of Unneutral starts with integration courses in Germany—where migrants learn "German values" like gender equality (while Germany has an 18% pay gap) and punctuality (while trains run 63% on time). Then we trace a line through Namibia, where 1% of the population still owns 70% of the land, 30 years after independence. And we look at right now: Germany increasing arms to Israel tenfold since October 2023, while the death toll of Palestinians reaches 680,000 during the ongoing genocide, while classrooms still teach "never again."
Politics doesn't start in parliament. It starts wherever power touches life.
unneutral — a new series of commentary from unrest radio.
9 Jun 2025
GERMANY, HOLOCAUST AGAIN? [op-ed]
Zahid narrates an explosive episode exposing Germany's hypocrisy in arming genocide, criminalizing dissent, and disappearing humanitarian witnesses aiding Gaza, highlighting the plight of activists like Iris Hefets, who faces brutal detention for protesting, revealing a situation akin to 1939 for Palestinians.
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