Rebecca Hauser/February 28, 2008/ 9:03 pm/ human rights
South African University Controversy
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is investigating a horrible case of racial discrimination. A video was made a year ago, yet only surfaced last week, of black university employees duped into eating food that had been urinated on by white university students. The white students urinated on the food and never told the employees. Not until this week were any arrests made.
This is not the first case of human rights violations at this school. This school is mainly attended by whites or students related to the white apartheid rule. Recently, the university has been trying to implement racial integration into the dormitories. This video was made as part of an uprising against this. The SAURC has promised to deal with this matter swiftly and firmly.
South Africa seems to be over-run with cases like this. Recently in the Northwest province a man is on trial for going on a shooting rampage, killing four blacks, including a mother and her infant. This outburst was due to recent undercurrents remaining from multiracial elections. Also, many farmers are on trial for murder of a black African, yet these farmers are claiming that they mistakenly thought the victim was an animal. In my opinion, this is absolutely barbaric. How could anyone shoot another human being and then claim that they thought they saw an animal. These cases of racial discriminations are no less than violations of human rights. As a member of the species of human, people are entitled to certain rights. These rights are being stripped away from innocent humans.
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The link to this article is
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23378050
I am sorry that I forgot to put it on the original post!
It's really hard to believe that things of this nature are still going on. You would think that the government would step in and try to ease tensions between races.
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