Apartheid Kills, Apartheid Maims
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June 1990 S The newspaper of the 3 Movement / 0p Apartheid kills, apartheid maims WUth FORZr ee%cpe I South Africa and Chile 0 Talks continue S Bantustans collapse * Black solidaity in ritain • Police action n IN =-DE: in arms cover-up page3 page 5 page6 aparthed page 2 page p 2 AIm-APARIJD man J= Im • ARMS EMBARGO South African G6 promoted as 'made in Chile' [ 4 Theatome of Be ll's 'vitory ton' of Europepresents a TheUnited Nations imposeda cleg dangorto the prospectsof freedom In South Africa. It is mandatory armsembargo on the prospect of the dinsmntlingof esting sanctions. SouthAfrica in 1977 outlaw Theantl-apartbeid movementsof te EuropeanCommunity ing allarms trading with the wereat one in oppasingBe Kirk's visit to Europe becauseIt apartheid regime.The arms cHf a a unacceptable degreeof respectabilityonthe head embargois theonly mandatory of sate of the apartheidregilo, andbecam, byreducing the embargo internationally pressure on the apartbeldregim, it couldunderlne the applied against SouthAfrica, [IT prospectsof achievinga pelitical settlent is Soth Africa. and aas wonafter manyyears" Boapartheid leader has prevlouslybeen ableto meetthe campaigning byanti-apartheid (socialist) presidentsar prim miaistors of France,Italy and organisationaroundthewor. Spain, the kings of Belgi and Spain, the presdnt ofthe EuropeanConmnity (socialist), andthe (conserative) heads of At the biennial FIDA arms 25 March by the new presi gosernmentof Brene, Portugaland Britia, withSwitzerland exhbitin inSantiago in March dent of Chile, the l55nsm thrownIn becauseof its Influence in banking andfinancial 21990, the Armscor G6 self weapons systems of South circles. Membersof the Socialist Groupin the European propelled 155mm howitzer African origin were brought Palament failed even to agrneon a remsolion mildly chiding was promoted asthe Cardoen into the exhibition-apparently acqnsDolors for mneting Be Kerk. CC-SP-45. Photographs to preventembarrassment for TheSpanish government has allowedIts national airline to obtained by the World Cam the government in case any resumefreight services to SouthAfrica. Frenchcoal sactions paign reveal that theCardoen one identified the exhibits. appe to beat risk.The Greek snd Pertuguese governaents are product is intact identical to When it was exposed last the exhibitedweaponwhich is separaterepresentationsomade openly callng forEC sanctions to berelaxed; even more theSouth African G6. year that Cardoen were to claimed to be an all-Chile to the British foreign secre snrioas, theDutch gomernent Is privatelycanvassing support It March 19809 defenceassemble the G5 locally, the product has iemswhich are tary, the World Campaign, for a phaseddisnantling of sanctions starting the banon minister Malan visited Chile Chilean government respon made in South Africa'. received a reply dated 13 foreign Inetmeat once the stats of emergeacyhas been lifted. to investigate 'mining ded to protests by cainming In order to assist and con March which states: 'We do Thee andother symptoms of theweakeneg of the interests' but the World Cam that a licence had been vince the government, the not believe the esisting UN sanctions amplign ae ali rosted in the totallymisconceived paign exposed that he had obtainedfrom Soth Africa for World Campaign suggested arms embargo requires notionof rewling DeKliik for the chengesbe hasmade an visited Cardoen's anos plant the production of the weapon 'that your government inter amnendment."It goeson to sy: far. Theycan onlyenceurag BeKlauk to slowdown the paceof in Iquique to inspect the test and it pointed out thatthe UN vene immediatelyad inspect, 'Wetherefore see no need for change,make fewerconcessions, and wie more tim forracist ink of the firstlocally-assem embargo on the mprtation for example, the tyres ... you the additional proposals put whitemiarity rle. bled South African G5 hqwit of anl s does not prohibit the will find fhat they have clear forward by the Conmnon HmThatcher, who pioneered the ides of rewardingDe Kirk, zerwith a range of over 35 transferofnilitry technology marlings in the Afrinans wealth Committee of Foreign can no beae to baveMazed a trIl whichother governments iklonetres. Although Carlos from Soith Africa '1;is loop language which reveal their MinisterooSoutherAfrica.' are beginningto follow. Nifther shenor they se to recognie Cardoen later admitted this, hole in the embargo resolu South African origin'. The that rewardIs due ot to BeKir bt to Nelon Mandeta,the Armiscorrefuseditoconent tion of 1984 was created deli Chlean gaverouret ignored 0 Protest to Chile about its ANCand the stll voteless majorityof Soth Africa'speople - far Further investigation also berately-BriitainadthemaJor themessageandtooknoaction promotion of South African their patience,detemiation anduntold sacrifices. it istheir revealed that Armsmor and western powers at that time whatsoever to remove the arms and demand an end to straggles,not te Kirk's 'goodwill', whichhave been the Cardoen had made secret refused all attempts in the exhibit. Ithssso farnotreplied such blatant collaboration primarymotor st ach f hanges as havetaken place. arrangements to market the Security Council to adopt a to the World Campaign whichisdeliberatelyintended Popuolarsopport within SouthAfrica forthe geaine anddeep self-propeled G6as ifit werea morecomprehensivewording. SinceSouthAfricaissnable to undermine the UN Comnitmot to non-racialism whichMandeia and his Chilean product. It isnow After confirmation by to market its arms abroad, an embargo. colleaguas maintaincan only be underminedif the lationel possible to produce photo special eye-witness observers elaborate arrangement has Party,standard-banrer of apartheid and white role, is rewarded graphic evidence which at the Santiago show, the been made to promote the G5 * Write to your MP and to by lifting sanctions. Tothe extent that the restralt of them reveals that the (6 and the World Campaign sent an madG6 as if they are entirely the British government nowccnfronting the regimeIn thetalks Is notable to achieve CC-SP-45 systems are in fact urgent message to foreign Chilean products, and demanding that the arms visibtoand Substantial pain, a climatecould develop In wich the same. ministerEnique Silca Cinona Cardoenisoorfident of selling embargo be tightened and randomviolence and exrme attitades will becomemore Since 1984 Armscor has urging that the exhibits of them to certain Middle Past made more comprehenuive. attractiveto some. been permitted to take part in South African origin be and other countries. indeed,if sanctions a wounddown before negotiations the biennial FIDA shows by removed from FIDA9. The World Campaign has have reached flnliity anthe endingof apartheid andthe the Pintchet regime. Follow On 30 March the Chilean reported this case to the UN creatien of a gact ann-racialdemocracy, the ansl,,suartheiding the election of the new embassyin Oslo informed the Security Council's arms fers will findthnemslvs livig thealgtla whicha British democratic government, the World Campaign that 'neither embargo committee, as well WorldCampaign against feg minister one Invokedof being found'naked In the World Campaign took certain South Africa nor any weapon an to the recent meetings of Militay andNuclear coferace chamber'. I suh circestancs a bileakdon of initiatives which resulted in built in South Africa' is partici the Nordic and Front line Collaborationwith South negotiations, resumptionof armedstraggle, and erVtin of several governments being pating in the show. On the foreign ministers in Oslo and Africa, PO Bar 2, Lindeberg nam actonas a oga isbaecom inevitable. given assurances that South same day a further message to the meeting of the Com Gaard,N1007 QsLo10, TheEC summit mtling InDublin as 2 Jam will startto Africawouldnot be allowedto was sent to the foreign minis monwealth Committee of Nonvay moveIn this direction unhie cunter pressaresae hroghtto participate in FIDA90. ter informing him that the Foreign Ministers in Abuja, Tel (02) 301345;Telex bewquickly. Erprone w o t to m an ely nedto Onedayaftertheone-week World Campaign had 'estab Nigeria. 72314AAM N;Fax (02) aparthedshonid act nw to exertsch presumres. FIDA 90show was opened on lished beyond all doubt that Meanwhile, following 303381 Front Line States ANTI-APARTHEID NEWS Attacks continue in Thennpe- theAull-Apte d Movement I1 Recent bomb attacks in the dangerofbeingblinded in one mysterious gunmen outside squads wrote to F W de Klerk lEO OM 13Mandela Strot, Londneu1 soW Tel 071-387 7M6a Front tine States have illus eye. his home inAlexandra, on the following the recent attacks. mm AImBrooks trated therothilessaggression, The attack took place one outskirts of Johannesburg. 'It makes ittl sense that clearly still prevalent, of the week after PACveteran Sam The attacks have led to the comoission is prevented ASSISTANTEgnafTOPROWMOu MANAGER Eaer llvlngone South African regime. Chand and his entire family increased calls for Pretoria from exanining certain secu Aasni-_- le. ATlneVase toyre The attacks, occurring at were wiped out in a raid on AlRTM %VM AT VesnEm fully to investigate attacks rityforceoperationswhich had the same time as the Harms their home in the Botswana outside the borders of South beenplannedinternallymerely ldniddaa UKfla Erope l3.S0; ousidesEuroe (ufana E.S.0 Commission looks into the border village of Sikwane. Africa. because they were executed notad Euope ll E13.1S1;Iliatsm UKcl0; FumpeEn; ustslde domestic activities of a now Chand was gruned down The HanmsCommission,