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...mounting black violence, Executive President P.W. Botha declared a state of emergency in 36 riot-torn cities and towns, most of them in the Eastern Cape or near Johannesburg. It was South Africa's first declared emergency in 25 years and gave police expanded powers to make arrests, detain suspects indefinitely, impose curfews and restrict press reporting. The announcement last Saturday upstaged a dramatic funeral in the Eastern Cape. Some 25,000 black mourners converged on the town of Cradock from hundreds of miles around to pay their last respects to four slain black activists. But the prayers were interrupted...
...unrest. Botha's proclamation of the emergency was intended to end the violence and bring about what General Johan Coetzee, the national police commissioner, described as a "cooling down of the situation as soon as possible." Under the emergency regulations, police were allowed to enter homes, seize property, detain without charge and order people from one location to another. Journalists were barred from areas where sweeps by security forces were under...
...this relatively unknown episode seem relevant to book-buying audiences, she has avoided using “Mau Mau” in her work’s title. Instead, she gives the out-of-context label “gulag” to the British labor camps used to detain suspected Mau Mau rebels...
When several Italian coast-guard cutters set out from the industrial port city of Taranto on that country's southeastern coast on Oct. 4, 2003, they had specific orders: to detain and board a German-flagged cargo ship called the BBC China, then heading for Libya. The seizure had, in fact, been arranged jointly by the CIA and MI6, the overseas arm of British intelligence. When the agents boarded the BBC China, what they found was anything but routine: five large containers, each carefully packed with precision machine tools, tubes and other bombmaking equipment. The containers amounted to part...
...would not comment on the more than 30 detainees whose fate is in limbo. But to critics of the Pentagon's treatment of detainees at Guant??namo, the continuing delays are inexcusable. Says Neal Sonnett, the American Bar Association's observer at Gitmo: "Some of these people have been detained for three years, and we should do everything possible to be sure that we don't detain innocent people one minute longer than we have to." By Timothy J. Burger