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African National Congress South African Government
1,810 wordsRacial segregation and the supremacy of whites had been traditionally accepted in South Africa prior to 1948, but in the general election of that year, Daniel F. Malan officially included the policy of apartheid in the Afrikaner Nationalist party platform, bringing his party to power for the first time. Although most whites acquiesced in the policy, there was bitter and sometimes bloody strife over the degree and stringency of its implementation. 2 The purpose of apartheid was separation of the ...
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World War Ii Human Rights Violations
612 wordsThroughout history, the rights of humans have frequently been abused. Human rights are the rights and liberties that are guaranteed to everyone from birth. After World War II, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Right, which stated that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and that everyone has the right to a nationality, religion and his or her own opinion (Document 1). Despite the horrors of the Holocaust, abuses of human rights have continu...
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Nelson Mandela War Crimes
1,390 words... caused much pain and discomfort. The boys were strapped to a table and their rectums were hyper descended and they received a lower gastric intestinal examination. The young men cried so loud they had to be gagged. They also received humiliating urological experiments, where tissue samples were taken from kidneys, prostate glands, and testicles. Several semen samples were forcefully taken over two days. After three weeks of torturous medical examinations, the twins were taken to the dissecti...
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