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Antwerpse studente:
"Mandela mede-verantwoordilik vir plaasaanvalle"
Antwerp students demand withdrawal of Mandela honorary degree at
Antwerp University May 26 in protest over SA farm murders
news release from: nsv_an...@hotmail.com Van Gert Gillis,
Studenteleier NSV - Antwerpen May 13, 2004 - ANTWERP, BELGIUM.
Students at Antwerp University published a press release today
demanding the withdrawal of the university's decision to award an
honorary degree to veteran ANC leader Nelson Mandela on May 26.
Student Leader Gert Gillis said the NSV (the student society
publishing the press release today) opposed awarding the honorary
degree to veteran ANC leader -- because they they see him as being
co-responsible for the farm attacks due his "inaction' during his
presidency to stop these.
The students said Mandela, as the ex-president of South Africa and
still a highly influential veteran ANC leader, undertook nothing to
effectively stop the farm attack campaign, which started targetting
commercial farm dwellers from 1991.
"Mandela must be seen as being co-responsible for this ongoing lack of
government intervention and the lack of effective rural security
throughout the past decade -- and which thus allowed these death-squad
style attacks to continue unabated.
"More than 1,630 of South Africa's commercial farm dwellers, most of
these victims being of the Afrikaner ethnic minority, have already
been murdered since 1991," he pointed out.
He said that last month, the Antwerp students had first been alerted
to the SA farm attack problem after they had viewed "A Bloody
Harvest," the 2003 TV documentary produced by award-winning South
African investigative TV-journalist Susan Puren.
See: http://www.mnet/CarteBlanche/Display/Display.asp?Id=2265)
"With this shocking documentary still fresh in our memory, we thus
noted with total amazement the announcement by the University of
Antwerp to award Mandela an honorary doctorate.
"It is of course loudable that Antwerp University is such a strong
supporter of human rights and always throws its full weight behind the
goal to attain a more democratic, peaceful world.
"However, awarding Mandela this important academic doctorate does not
support the university's human rights policies, on the contrary."
"As former president of South Africa, and still an influential veteran
leader of the communist ANC, Mandela is and indeed must be seen as
co-responsible for this horrendous ethnic-cleansing campaign targeting
Afrikaner farmers, and which the international news media remains so
silent about."
"An annual 145 Afrikaner farmers die in these farm attacks. "
He pointed out that "while the average murder rate for all South
Africans is already high; the murder rate for SA 's commercial farmers
is an astonishing 313 per 100,000, the highest for any single group in
the world.
Appalling cruelty:
"The most alarming feature of these farm attacks is the appalling
cruelty with which these are carried out," he said.
"Besides the farm owners being gunned down, hanged, mutilated and
undergoing other forms of torture including being forced to watch the
rape of their women and children; the family members including the
smallest babies also often are tortured, raped and killed in these
appalling deeds carried out by groups of young African male attackers
against these families. Genocide Watch warns that these attacks bear
all the hallmark of a rapidly nearing genocide of this minority group.
"The fact that relatively few, if any, valuable items are stolen from
homesteads during these attacks proves that these are not primarily
motivated by robbery as is being consistently claimed by the SA
government.
"The South African government, starting with former President
Mandela,had clearly not ever publicly condemned these murder attacks
efficiently so that they would stop. For the past decade, the
ANC-government has also neglected to provide adequate rural security
to prevent these attacks or to protect the farm dwellers.
"These attacks, we believe, are to the advantage of the SA regime
because these clearly assist their land-redistribution programmes by
forcing these terrorised commercial farm families to vacate their
dangerous homesteads," Mr Gillis said.
Ethnic cleansing of Afrikaner farmers must be placed on international
agenda:
The students demand that the honorary degree not be awarded to Mandela
by the University -- in order to "send a clear signal that the issue
of the ethnic cleansing campaign targetting Afrikaner farmers must be
placed on the international agenda."news release from:
nsv_an...@hotmail.com
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