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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/19/south-africa-sharpeville-massacre-anniversary">Today</a> marks the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,869441-1,00.html">50th</a> anniversary of the massacre at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre">Sharpeville</a>. Amandla! Awethu!post:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.90283Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:33:51 -0800quodlibetSouthAfricaSharpevilleMassacreBy: rtha
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Amandla!
It was amazing to me in 1986, when I was in college and deeply involved in the anti-apartheid and divestment movement, that adults who were supposed to be smart and educated and thoughtful, could in any way defend a regime that did this kind of thing. I remember a meeting with the trustees of my school, who seemed to have only the thinnest knowledge of what apartheid actually was, and what it meant, as they defended their refusal to divest with talk of fiduciary responsibility.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.90283-3003419Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:08:25 -0800rthaBy: New England Cultist
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I love you, Rainbow Nation.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.90283-3003435Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:17:51 -0800New England CultistBy: el io
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The Time coverage in 1960 seems at odds with the present day eyewitness accounts.
The Times in the 60s:
<i>Twenty police, nervously eying a growing mob of 20,000 Africans demanding to be arrested, barricaded themselves behind a 4-ft. wire-mesh fence surrounding the police station. The crowd's mood was ugly, and 130 police reinforcements, supported by four Saracen armored cars, were rushed in. Sabre jets and Harvard Trainers zoomed within a hundred feet of the ground, buzzing the crowd in an attempt to scatter it. The Africans responded by hurling stones, which rattled harmlessly off the armored cars and into the police compound, stnk-ing three policemen. </i>
From the Guardian, present time:
<i>Makiti, who at the time was a 17-year-old PAC member, recalled that the demonstrators were in high spirits, holding umbrellas and throwing their hats in the air.
"There was jubilation around, not anything that suggested people were angry or wanting to fight," said the grandfather, who later spent five years imprisoned on Robben Island. "They were waiting for the answer and the answer came with the bullet. I think the police just panicked because of the mob."
Without warning the police opened fire on the crowd. Most of those who died were shot in the back as they fled. </i>comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.90283-3003587Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:43:19 -0800el ioBy: IAmBroom
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Writing in to say that <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303297/plotsummary">"Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony"</a> is a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9BXqbxC9tA">wonderful musical/documentary/tearjerker.</a>comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.90283-3003773Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:45:25 -0800IAmBroomBy: IAmBroom
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BTW, I just noticed: Youtube has removed their 10-minute limit on vids. That last link is apparently the entire 103-min movie!comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.90283-3003866Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:25:02 -0800IAmBroomBy: jammy
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thanks for posting thiscomment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.90283-3004690Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:38:29 -0800jammyBy: tuckshopdilettante
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There's a truly <a href="http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-03-19-days-that-shook-the-world">chilling account</a> of the massacre in the South African Mail and Guardian, recounted by the sole reporter who had stumbled onto the scene by accident, Humphrey Tyler.
The accompanying picture and caption gave me gooseflesh when I encountered in the print edition.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.90283-3006906Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:27:30 -0800tuckshopdilettante
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