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Amnesty International statement on AbM attacks

18 12 2009

South Africa: Failure to conduct impartial investigation into Kennedy Road violence is leading to further human rights abuses

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

PUBLIC DOCUMENT AI Index: AFR 53/011/2009

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Amnesty International deplores the continuing failure of the South African authorities to investigate impartially and fully human rights abuses which occurred during and after armed violence at the Kennedy Road Informal Settlement (Kennedy Road) in Durban last September. This despite repeated calls since October for an independent and impartial commission of inquiry into the surrounding circumstances and extent of the violence and its aftermath. Read the rest of this entry »

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Media: Officials and Xenophobia

3 06 2009

3 June, 2009

Anna Majavu (Source: Sowethan – print edition)

The police, political leaders, and government officials are not taking the growing wave of xenophobia seriously, and are even “colluding with local business” to make sure that xenophobic attacks against so-called foreign traders go unpunished.

That is the view of xenophobia expert, and director of the University of the Witwatersrand’s Forced Migration Studies unit, Dr Loren Landau. Read the rest of this entry »