Word: martyrize
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...mourners for a martyr challenge the system
South Africa's blacks lost a leader, but gained a martyr. Protests over Biko's death were widespread, this time among whites as well as blacks. At a rally inside the Johannesburg city hall, 2,000 members of the opposition Progressive Federal Party called for Kruger's ouster and repeal of the internal security laws. Kowie Marais, a prominent former judge and onetime member of the National Party, declared that Biko's death had made him a "complete and unequivocal enemy of the security legislation in South Africa." Even the pro-government weekly Rapport editorialized that...
...Israeli daily, in 1974 that, "Many of us rightly regard his activities... as a mental perversion, something which is so utterly disgusting that it does not even deserve comment." Rubenstein went on to say that although he would not put Shahak on trial for fear of making him a martyr, "I have no doubt that there is much evidence--at least prima facie -- that justifies bringing Shahak to trial on a charge of treason...
...birth of a black martyr...
...died a prisoner. And thus was born a martyr. The prisoner, Steven Bantu Biko. 30, was the 20th South African black known to have died in security detention during the past 18 months. More important, he was a founding member of the all-black South African Students' Organization, honorary president of the national Black People's Convention and undisputed spiritual leader of the black consciousness movement inside South Africa. His death triggered a chorus of demands, by both blacks and whites, for an investigation, and at week's end there was growing concern that memorial services...