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Three South African blacks who killed Amy Biehl, an American Fulbright Scholar, were given sentences of 18 years in prison, avoiding the death penalty. The judge said that the killers could be rehabilitated even though they haven't shown remorse for the brutal, racially-motivated slaying, which took place last August outside Cape Town...
Three blacks were convicted today in the racial murder of an American student last year after a long and divisive trial that garnered world-wide media attention. Amy Biehl, 26, a Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach, Calif. was in South Africa working on voter education and doing research on women's rights, when she was stabbed and bludgeoned to death in August by a mob near Cape Town. The conviction concludes a trial that dragged on for months because witnesses to the murder weren't forthcoming at first. But after they testified, "there was really no doubt in anybody...
Last Wednesday Biehl was preparing to leave Cape Town. She was to fly back to Stanford on Friday to begin doctoral studies. As she had done for months, Biehl offered some fellow students a lift back to their homes in the black townships. They piled into Biehl's mustard-colored Mazda, the one with the bumper sticker reading OUR LAND NEEDS PEACE. Around 5 p.m., as she drove into the township of Guguletu, a group of teenagers hurled stones at the car. Trapped behind another vehicle, Biehl was a sitting target for the brick that shattered her windshield...
...arson. But the "settlers" remark and a shirt allegedly worn by one of the attackers pointed toward the Pan-Africanist Students' Organization, a wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which coined the motto "One Settler, One Bullet," and the police arrested two teenage P.A.S.O. members. When informed of Biehl's death, P.A.S.O. president Tsietsi Telite said unrepentantly, "The youths and students are so angry and frustrated that when they see someone they identify with the dispossessing classes, anything can happen -- and could happen again...
...Newport Beach, California, the Biehl family has been deluged with faxes and telephone calls from friends and advisers in different schools, from the White House, from Namibia, from Biehl's South African friends. In these she is repeatedly referred to as a "sister." The loving condolences are inspiring, says Amy's mother Linda. "She was part of something. They're a kind of reconstruction of the world she lived in." A world of forgiving, compassionate people, a place that has yet to be reconciled with the world in which she died...