Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says the death machine that has claimed over 3,000 lives since 1984 remains intact; overt police repression has stalled slightly, but covert repression remains unchecked. The growing information on the police "Death Squad'' is only the tip of the iceberg; at least 53 opponents of apartheid are known to have been brutally eliminated by these death squads since 1977, but the exact numbers will probably never be known, and not one of these 53 cases has resulted in even a trial. The mailing includes POLITICAL PRISONERS CURRENTLY SERVING LIFE SENTENCES AND LIST OF PERSONS ON DEATH ROW FOR POLITICALLY-RELATED REASONS as well as LIST OF...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says the death machine that has claimed over 3,000 lives since 1984 remains intact; overt police repression has stalled slightly, but covert repression remains unchecked. The growing information on the police "Death Squad'' is only the tip of the iceberg; at least 53 opponents of apartheid are known to have been brutally eliminated by these death squads since 1977, but the exact numbers will probably never be known, and not one of these 53 cases has resulted in even a trial. The mailing includes POLITICAL PRISONERS CURRENTLY SERVING LIFE SENTENCES AND LIST OF PERSONS ON DEATH ROW FOR POLITICALLY-RELATED REASONS as well as LIST OF DEATHS IN DETENTION. It includes excerpts from Vrye Weekblad about the breaking of the Death Squad story. The mailing discusses Capt. Dirk Jonannes Coetzee, murders, the African National Congress (ANC), Askaris, Butana Nofomela, an assassination squad, Griffiths Mxenge, Umlazi stadium, the Security Police, the South African Police (SAP), the Human Rights Commission, comprehensive economic sanctions, and executions.
