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...Botha's crackdown, however, suggests that those demands will not be met anytime soon. Indeed, if history is an accurate guide, South Africa's blacks may be in for tough tunes. In 1960 and 1977, in the wake of the Sharpeville and Soweto uprisings, the government halted the orgy of violence by arresting antiapartheid leaders and outlawing most opposition organizations. In both instances, the silencing of black leaders ended the crisis. Whether the new crackdown will have a similar effect remains to be seen. Last week the Financial Mail, a Johannesburg newsweekly, ran a cover story titled "The Townships...
Thus last week the most densely populated areas of stricken and divided South Africa fell under an iron-like state of emergency. The crackdown by the Botha government came after ten months of black protest against apartheid, the country's rigidly enforced structure of racial separation, and followed earlier, ineffective repressions by the government. Almost 500 people, practically all of them black, died during that extended and bloody period of confrontation, some at the hands of fellow blacks, the majority as the result of police action to put down the unrest. Botha's proclamation of the emergency was intended...
...bishop's warning that the images of bloodshed would be used against the black protesters was soon borne out. In the face of the international furor over the government's harsh crackdown, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha (no kin to President Botha), sounding a theme that would be invoked repeatedly by the government, declared that South Africa would not allow its future to be decided by "perpetrators of violence who burn people alive...
While savagery like El Verdugo's might evoke a Hollywood gangster movie, it has become a grim reality of life in some Mexican border towns. Upstart groups like the Zetas have emerged largely as a result of the Mexican government's recent crackdown on the big cartels that have long monopolized the country's $25 billion-a-year drug trade. Experts call the phenomenon "atomization": as the large Mafias decompose, more reckless "microcartels" spin off or move in. In their heyday in the 1980s and '90s, Mexico's biggest kingpins ran networks that employed thousands of people; now gangs like...
...military surgeon whose 2003 open letter to the government exposed a cover-up of the sars epidemic; from house arrest; in Beijing. Jiang was detained for questioning by military officials last June over another letter he sent senior Chinese leaders, this time asking for a reappraisal of the 1989 crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. Jiang is now free to leave his house, but has been ordered to submit regular "thought reports" to his local Communist Party Committee and is barred from talking to the media...