Steve Biko - Murdered 40 years ago

[Tommy Tainant]

Why is Steve Biko's remarkable legacy often overlooked? - CNN

In 1977, Biko was killed in police custody after brutal interrogation and torture. Despite a subsequent politicalcover up, the circumstances of his death were exposed, laying bare the violence of the apartheid state. His death led to greater international pressure against white minority rule, particularly via the global Anti-Apartheid Movement and influential people such as white journalist and activist Donald Woods, whose friendship with Biko was the subject of the 1987 film "Cry Freedom."

Worth remembering when people gloss over the horrors of apartheid.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Especially since this treatment of Blacks, the open murders of Blacks, continues in the US - just as it always has.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Especially since this treatment of Blacks, the open murders of Blacks, continues in the US - just as it always has.

There are some on here who pine for the days of apartheid.

 

[NLT]

Why is Steve Biko's remarkable legacy often overlooked? - CNN

In 1977, Biko was killed in police custody after brutal interrogation and torture. Despite a subsequent politicalcover up, the circumstances of his death were exposed, laying bare the violence of the apartheid state. His death led to greater international pressure against white minority rule, particularly via the global Anti-Apartheid Movement and influential people such as white journalist and activist Donald Woods, whose friendship with Biko was the subject of the 1987 film "Cry Freedom."

Worth remembering when people gloss over the horrors of apartheid.

because Biko...Who gives a shit

 

[impuretrash]

Why is Steve Biko's remarkable legacy often overlooked? - CNN

In 1977, Biko was killed in police custody after brutal interrogation and torture. Despite a subsequent politicalcover up, the circumstances of his death were exposed, laying bare the violence of the apartheid state. His death led to greater international pressure against white minority rule, particularly via the global Anti-Apartheid Movement and influential people such as white journalist and activist Donald Woods, whose friendship with Biko was the subject of the 1987 film "Cry Freedom."

Worth remembering when people gloss over the horrors of apartheid.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

And here they come.......................

 

[impuretrash]

And here they come.......................

 

[NLT]

Just another Black African that wanted to kill white Africans that devloped the country into something other than kaffir tribe killing each other over ownership of the biggest termite mound.

 

[westwall]

Why is Steve Biko's remarkable legacy often overlooked? - CNN

In 1977, Biko was killed in police custody after brutal interrogation and torture. Despite a subsequent politicalcover up, the circumstances of his death were exposed, laying bare the violence of the apartheid state. His death led to greater international pressure against white minority rule, particularly via the global Anti-Apartheid Movement and influential people such as white journalist and activist Donald Woods, whose friendship with Biko was the subject of the 1987 film "Cry Freedom."

Worth remembering when people gloss over the horrors of apartheid.

It was a tragedy when Biko was murdered. It truly was.

 

[Peach]

Why is Steve Biko's remarkable legacy often overlooked? - CNN

In 1977, Biko was killed in police custody after brutal interrogation and torture. Despite a subsequent politicalcover up, the circumstances of his death were exposed, laying bare the violence of the apartheid state. His death led to greater international pressure against white minority rule, particularly via the global Anti-Apartheid Movement and influential people such as white journalist and activist Donald Woods, whose friendship with Biko was the subject of the 1987 film "Cry Freedom."

Worth remembering when people gloss over the horrors of apartheid.

I read about him when we marched to get the University to divest from holdings in slave countries.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Why is Steve Biko's remarkable legacy often overlooked? - CNN

In 1977, Biko was killed in police custody after brutal interrogation and torture. Despite a subsequent politicalcover up, the circumstances of his death were exposed, laying bare the violence of the apartheid state. His death led to greater international pressure against white minority rule, particularly via the global Anti-Apartheid Movement and influential people such as white journalist and activist Donald Woods, whose friendship with Biko was the subject of the 1987 film "Cry Freedom."

Worth remembering when people gloss over the horrors of apartheid.

I read about him when we marched to get the University to divest from holdings in slave countries.

It was the first time I became aware of what was going on in South Africa. I read about it in a right wing paper at my grandparents house and the paper called him a terrorist.