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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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