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Article: SWAZILAND: SWAZILAND RECALLS CRACKDOWN ON STUDENT STRIKE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- December 2, 1999
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-02-1999
MBABANE, Dec. 1 (AIA/GIN) -- When the army was called in to
quell a student rebellion at the University of Swaziland in the
early 1990s, it became a seminal event that signalled a new
generation's political consciousness.
This week, the annual commemoration of "Black Wednesday" was
held for the first time with the permission of university
authorities.
A tree was planted both in honor of the injured -- no fatalities
occurred when armed soldiers pushed police aside and forced
students out of the library where they had barricaded themselves
-- and to commemorate a dawning political awareness born from a
confluence of historical forces then ...
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