Contents: Legal Status of Namibia • Recommendations • Direct intervention • Bringing pressure on South Africa • Following a brief discussion of the legal situation in Namibia, Elizabeth Landis addresses recommendations for United States policy. The first set of recommendations addresses ways to condemn the recent arrest of Namibians and provide support to those who have been arrested, which is the focus of the hearing. The second set of recommendations discusses how the U.S. should put pressure on South Africa to end its illegal occupation of Namibia. Landis discusses the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Terrorism Act, solitary confinement of detainees, the right...
Contents: Legal Status of Namibia • Recommendations • Direct intervention • Bringing pressure on South Africa • Following a brief discussion of the legal situation in Namibia, Elizabeth Landis addresses recommendations for United States policy. The first set of recommendations addresses ways to condemn the recent arrest of Namibians and provide support to those who have been arrested, which is the focus of the hearing. The second set of recommendations discusses how the U.S. should put pressure on South Africa to end its illegal occupation of Namibia. Landis discusses the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Terrorism Act, solitary confinement of detainees, the right of habeas corpus, torture, electrical devices, puppet homeland authorities, the State Department, political offences, trials, political crimes, the U.S. Mission to the UN, the UN Fund for Namibia, Namibian products, most-favored-nation treatment, GATT, South African products, the arms embargo against South Africa, spare parts, executive jets and all other equipment convertible to military use, computers and advanced electronic equipment, patents and know-how relating to all such equipment, nuclear devices and technical information relating thereto, napalm, defoliants, U.S. investment, the Internal Revenue Service, tax credits, Export-Import Bank credit guarantees for trade with Namibia, and forced labor.
