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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- August 2, 1998
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The four men convicted of beating and
stabbing American exchange student Amy Biehl to death in 1993 were
pardoned and released from prison last week.
Explaining the grant of amnesty, South Africa's Truth and
Reconciliation Commission said the four had subscribed to the belief
that whites were their enemies and that by killing Biehl, who was
white, they were sending a message to South Africa's apartheid
government.
Biehl, a 26-year-old Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif.,
died in the black township of Guguletu outside Cape Town when a crowd
stoned her car, then beat and stabbed her. She had come to Guguletu
to register voters for South Africa's first ...
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