IT HAS BEGUN AGAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA . . . The election violence. The political repression. The assaults on civil rights and human dignity. FORTUNATELY, THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO.
IT HAS BEGUN AGAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA . . . The election violence. The political repression. The assaults on civil rights and human dignity. FORTUNATELY, THERE IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO.
This fundraising leaflet for the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law depicts F.W. de Klerk's brutal response to the month-long Defiance Campaign organized to protest the September 6, 1989 parliamentary elections for whites only. The leaflet says in Mitchells Plain and other black townships, riot equipped police with dogs brutalized demonstrators, flailed four-foot rubber whips that cut the flesh of demonstrators, fired birdshot from pump-action shot guns that ripped through human flesh, blasted purple dye from water cannons that marked those for arrest, and tossed tear gas canisters from Trojan Horse ambulances. At least 25 people died, thousands were...
This fundraising leaflet for the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law depicts F.W. de Klerk's brutal response to the month-long Defiance Campaign organized to protest the September 6, 1989 parliamentary elections for whites only. The leaflet says in Mitchells Plain and other black townships, riot equipped police with dogs brutalized demonstrators, flailed four-foot rubber whips that cut the flesh of demonstrators, fired birdshot from pump-action shot guns that ripped through human flesh, blasted purple dye from water cannons that marked those for arrest, and tossed tear gas canisters from Trojan Horse ambulances. At least 25 people died, thousands were arrested, and 250 remain in detention. The leaflet says since 1967 the Lawyers' Committee has put apartheid on trial in its own courts of law - defending the rights of protestors, challenging repressive laws, lending moral support to an embattled people. By hiring lawyers to defend anti-apartheid activists, the Lawyers' Committee has forced government prosecutors to dismiss trumped-up charges and release detainees being held without charges. The Committee also has brought lawsuits to challenge apartheid laws, illegal police practices, torture and imprisonment. The leaflet includes a photograph of a group of 20 church leaders, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Reverend Allan Boesak, demonstrating against state repression in Cape Town on September 1, 1989.
