Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says in early December the African National Congress (ANC) released a video made by an independent camera crew which showed the South Africa Police (SAP) allowing Inkatha Impis to beat two unarmed men to death; in mid-January the Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok introduced Operation Sentry, a massive mobilization of police presence in an effort to combat growing levels of crime and violence; within hours of the formal launch of the campaign, police presence in Johannesburg was in the words of some "invisible"; the police were also invisible at the massacre of ANC members at a funeral in Sebokeng in late January; there police...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says in early December the African National Congress (ANC) released a video made by an independent camera crew which showed the South Africa Police (SAP) allowing Inkatha Impis to beat two unarmed men to death; in mid-January the Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok introduced Operation Sentry, a massive mobilization of police presence in an effort to combat growing levels of crime and violence; within hours of the formal launch of the campaign, police presence in Johannesburg was in the words of some "invisible"; the police were also invisible at the massacre of ANC members at a funeral in Sebokeng in late January; there police protection was not given despite countless requests by funeral organizers and warnings of the possibility of an attack by a gang linked to Inkatha. The mailing discusses the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), Justice Louis Harms, the Harms Commission, political assassinations, the security forces, the armed forces, hit squads, vigilante groups, and human rights organizations in South Africa.
