The mailing contains the SUMMARY REPORT ON REPRESSION FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1993 by the Human Rights Commission (HRC). The HRC recorded 669 incidents of political violence resulting in 554 deaths, the third highest figure in any month since it began monitoring in July 1990. The mailing discusses the Germiston Massacre at the Scaw Metals Hostel, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), American student Amy Biehl, Natal, the East Rand, formal repression, detentions without trial, deaths in police custody, political trials, political arrests, death sentences, Unrest Areas, Bophuthatswana, imprisonment, death row, repression of the media, security force actions, hit squad activity,...
The mailing contains the SUMMARY REPORT ON REPRESSION FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 1993 by the Human Rights Commission (HRC). The HRC recorded 669 incidents of political violence resulting in 554 deaths, the third highest figure in any month since it began monitoring in July 1990. The mailing discusses the Germiston Massacre at the Scaw Metals Hostel, National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), American student Amy Biehl, Natal, the East Rand, formal repression, detentions without trial, deaths in police custody, political trials, political arrests, death sentences, Unrest Areas, Bophuthatswana, imprisonment, death row, repression of the media, security force actions, hit squad activity, right-wing activity, Gugulethu township, Internal Security Act (ISA), strikes, protest actions, and TBVC (Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, Ciskei).
