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Article: We must act against S. Africa
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 16, 1986
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Millions of Americans have become inured to the killings in South
Africa. When 1,600 people have been slain in 20 months of protest
against apartheid, it is almost meaningless to warn of a new
bloodbath during and after Monday's 10th anniversary of the Soweto
riots in which 570 people died.
The average human mind can only be outraged for so long about so
many murders.
Stories of grotesque political oppressions in South Africa have
been written and told so often, for so long, that much of the world
will not sense the eventual consequences of the Botha regime's latest
wave of arrests, its drastic move to silence the opposition white
press, its thumbing its nose at the rest of a critical ...