SherriMunnerlyn
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The Apartheid Convention declares that apartheid is a crime against humanity and that “inhuman acts resulting from the policies and practices of apartheid and similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination” are international crimes (art. 1). Article 2 defines the crime of apartheid –“which shall include similar policies and practices of racial segregation and discrimination as practised in southern Africa” – as covering “inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them”. It then lists the acts that fall within the ambit of the crime. These include murder, torture, inhuman treatment and arbitrary arrest of members of a racial group; deliberate imposition on a racial group of living conditions calculated to cause its physical destruction; legislative measures that discriminate in the political, social, economic and cultural fields; measures that divide the population along racial lines by the creation of separate residential areas for racial groups; the prohibition of interracial marriages; and the persecution of persons opposed to apartheid."
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
The reasons given to justify Apartheid mean absolutely nothing.
OF course, evil men always come up with reasons to justify their evil.
Will the world ever forget how America dropped two nuclear bombs on two civilian towns and justified it.
What establishes Apartheid is the elements set forth in the Apartheid Convention.
Separate is not equal, we lived this truth out in our own American Civil Rights Movement. Segregation is inherently racist.
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
The reasons given to justify Apartheid mean absolutely nothing.
OF course, evil men always come up with reasons to justify their evil.
Will the world ever forget how America dropped two nuclear bombs on two civilian towns and justified it.
What establishes Apartheid is the elements set forth in the Apartheid Convention.
Separate is not equal, we lived this truth out in our own American Civil Rights Movement. Segregation is inherently racist.
