Word: settlers
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Perhaps the most significant thing about Mordechai Lapid's death was not who ^ killed him, but where they did it. A Jewish settler from the West Bank town of Hebron, Lapid was standing at a bus stop with four of his 15 children last Monday night when several Palestinian gunmen opened fire from a passing car, cutting down Lapid and his eldest son. Just a few yards from where their bodies lay, bloodstains marked the spot where 48 hours earlier a group of Lapid's fellow settlers had stopped a car for no reason and shot into the passenger seat...
...then there were the slaves. In 1619 the Virginia settler John Rolfe made a diary note of a dark moment in American history. "About the last of August," he wrote, "came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars." In Virginia alone, the slave population grew from about 2,000 in 1670 to 150,000 on the eve of the American Revolution. Most of the slaves sailed from West Africa, chained together in dank, fetid holds for transatlantic journeys that often lasted three months or more. The conditions were unspeakable, the mortality rate horrifying: on some ships...
...these opportunists are both common felons and power-hungry leaders. Both of these groups fuel the instability by either committing or instigating violent acts; sometimes it is difficult to tell them apart. Indeed, the political opportunists are sometimes little better than the murderers. On one side, radicals scream "one settler, one bullet." On the other, reactionaries prepare themselves to overthrow any popularly elected government. As these two groups glare at each other from opposite sides of the shotgun and crossbow, the death toll climbs...
...station, but her assailants were faster. "We tried to tell them that she was just another student," says Sindiswa Bevu, who was in the car. "But some didn't listen." When the murder was done and Bevu asked why, one of the killers replied, "Because she's a settler...
...aligned with. On Wednesday the Cape townships swarmed with members of the Congress of South African Students, a group affiliated with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. In support of a national black teachers' strike, some of its members had initiated a campaign of violence and arson. But the "settlers" remark and a shirt allegedly worn by one of the attackers pointed toward the Pan-Africanist Students' Organization, a wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress, which coined the motto "One Settler, One Bullet," and the police arrested two teenage P.A.S.O. members. When informed of Biehl's death, P.A.S.O. president Tsietsi...