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A memorandum asks U.S. citizens to write their Congressional representatives about the need for speedy implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 435, with copies to the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations and the U.N. Commissioner for Namibia. The mailing includes an eyewitness account by the Rt. Rev. Kleopas Dumeni, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambokavango Church. It also includes Statement by U.S Lutheran Body Presidents of Assault by the South African Defense Force Against Congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambokavango Church by James R. Crumley, President, Lutheran Church in America; William H. Kohn, President, Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches; and Donald E. Preus, President, American Lutheran Church. The statement refers to Dumeni's account of members of Lutheran Churches at worship services in Elombe and Onayena in northeastern Namibia being brutally assaulted by the South African Defense Force. The South African soldiers claimed that they were looking for members of SWAPO.

African Activist Archive

RE: Continuing Repression in Namibia

TO: Namibians in the U.S., Standing Committee on World Community, Commission Members of LWM, Friends

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