Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign to Southern Africa Support and Human Rights Groups. The mailing says it has been a year since federal sanctions were lifted, over the objections of human rights groups around the world and the democracy movement in South Africa; at the time much of apartheid's repressive legislation remained on the books, at least 400 political prisoners were still behind bars and worse, there was growing evidence that the security forces were participating in the political violence in the townships. The mailing includes HRC SPECIAL BRIEFING ON MASSACRES by the Human Rights Commission. The mailing discusses the Boipatong massacre, F.W. de Klerk, political...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign to Southern Africa Support and Human Rights Groups. The mailing says it has been a year since federal sanctions were lifted, over the objections of human rights groups around the world and the democracy movement in South Africa; at the time much of apartheid's repressive legislation remained on the books, at least 400 political prisoners were still behind bars and worse, there was growing evidence that the security forces were participating in the political violence in the townships. The mailing includes HRC SPECIAL BRIEFING ON MASSACRES by the Human Rights Commission. The mailing discusses the Boipatong massacre, F.W. de Klerk, political violence, political offenses, Gathsa Buthelezi, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), negotiations, the PWV area, HRC Area Repression Reports, Natal, Midlands, Durban, the East Rand, Soweto, Vaal, Alexandra, the West Rand, Johannesburg, vigilantes, security forces, SAP (South African Police), SADF (South African Defence Force), ZKP (KwaZulu Police), and the ANC (African National Congress). Contents of HRC SPECIAL BRIEFING ON MASSACRES: INTRODUCTION • THE RECORD OF MASSACRES • THE MAGNITUDE OF THE MASSACRE RECORD • ITHE CHARACTER OF THE MASSACRES • WHERE THE MASSACRES TOOK PLACE • WHO WERE THE PERPETRATORS? • WHO WERE THE VICTIMS? • ITHE ISSUE OF COLLUSION • CONCLUSION • LIST OF MAJOR MASSSACRES From July 1990 to June 1992
