Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says the quest for democracy in South Africa is in serious jeopardy and the violence has continued unabated (claiming nearly 350 lives in July alone), peaceful negotiations remain almost in ruins, and to add insult to injury the De Klerk government now has the audacity to suggest a general amnesty for all people guilty of political violence (including security force personnel) be the first step in efforts to get talks back on track. The mailing says in May 1992, the international community was stunned by the disclosure of a secret government document implicating the State Security Council in the 1985 assassinations of four anti-apartheid...
Mailing of the Unlock Apartheid's Jails campaign. The mailing says the quest for democracy in South Africa is in serious jeopardy and the violence has continued unabated (claiming nearly 350 lives in July alone), peaceful negotiations remain almost in ruins, and to add insult to injury the De Klerk government now has the audacity to suggest a general amnesty for all people guilty of political violence (including security force personnel) be the first step in efforts to get talks back on track. The mailing says in May 1992, the international community was stunned by the disclosure of a secret government document implicating the State Security Council in the 1985 assassinations of four anti-apartheid activists; and that the document contained the death warrant for the four issued by then Defense Force Military Chief of Staff, General CP van der Westhuizen, who is now in F. W. De Klerk's cabinet. The mailing says on July 26, 1992, South Africa's most prominent pathologist, Dr. Jonathan Gluckman, released a scathing report accusing the South African Police with a "pattern of torturing and killing prisoners" and being "totally out of control." The mailing includes reports by the Human Rights Commission: PRESS SUMMARY ON WEEKLY REPRESSION REPORT FROM 29/07/92 TO 04/08/92, PRESS SUMMARY ON WEEKLY REPRESSION REPORT FROM 05/08/92 to 11/08/92, and SUMMARY REPORT ON REPRESSION FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 1992.
