Response to racial atrocities in S. Africa symptom of world's humanrights neglect

Introduction by Carol Forsloff  - Across the world many people will treat today as an ordinary one, but those who can stop human rights abuses can't shrug off a day like this, or any other, when people's lives are jeopardized, as a letter reminds us.

The letter contained in this article is a world wake-up call again that sometimes problems have to reach major proportions, and violence,  before they get attention.  That's because some bureaucrat somewhere has no interest in solving them or just may not want to take the time.  It happens when a group of American soldiers, as reported on world news, kill Afghani citizens and the warning signs are reported to bureaucrats and ignored.  And it happens when a racial minority becomes the target of hatred and violent attacks on a regular basis.  

Troubling incidents that occur on what might be regarded a minor scale, or far away from one's country, can be symptoms of wider problems.   Often they are not reported in the press until the worst happens in some obvious and dramatic way.  

This letter written to a bureaucrat in South Africa reflects the issue itself of neglect, as happens all over the world, of problems that may seem remote and insignificant, but that often return in some terrible way to impact a far greater group.  It is how major conflicts begin, as mistreatment of minorities historically has shown. 

From Adriana Stuift

To Christine Storo,

Board Member, Association of Norwegian Students
Abroad;

Peace Research Institute of Oslo,
Norway (PRIO)

Dear Ms Storø

re: my criticism: your recent
xenophobia-briefing concentrating on only on black-versus-black violence in
South Africa:

I am disappointed about your routine reply
in response to my warning about the ongoing, quiet genocide of the
Afrikaner minority in South Africa - which should have received a mention in
your 'xenophobia-report' recently. One can never really describe this present
ongoing genocide of this highly-disfavoured, very visible 3-million-strong
Afrikaner minority in South Africa merely as an 'interesting read' as you did,
alas. 

Even Prof Gregory Stanton of Genocide
Watch.org admits that the Afrikaner-Boers are being endangered by genocidal
behaviour regarding the socalled 'farm-attacks' in which more than 3700
mostly-Afrikaner farmers have already been slaughtered, often in extremely
gruesome circumstances which the ANC-regime describes as 'ordinary crime'.

Perhaps from your comfortable job at ANSA
and PRIO you might not want to  make waves by raising this very
"uncomfortable issue" publicly?

However our documentation - which is now
also being prepared for a pending law-suit at the International Criminal Court
in The Hague - is well-proven and extensive and has been maintained since 1994
by a variety independent observers like myself. The genocide - a combination
of well-organised, armed attacks by youth-militias and laws created to bring the
Afrikaner minority into deliberate homelessness, unemployability and
destitution, where they are becoming internal refugees in the country of their
birth --  is deliberately created by the ruling SA
troika-government i.e. the ANC-SA Communist Party-Cosatu alliance. http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/08/afrikaners-are-starving-pictures.html

And we can prove it with all the facts
and documentation gathered since 1994. The SA ruling-troika has no meaningful political opposition and thus
has been able to create a vast number of Neurenberg-style laws without any
formal opposition - and which bar the
Afrikaners as the disfavoured, previously advantaged minority, from the entire
job-market, (except perhaps some specialty-jobs). The ANC even describes the
young Afrikaners born after the end of apartheid in 1994 as 'previously
advantaged' despite their very obvious homelessness and desperate poverty -
and even refusing the most destitute Afrikaners (- some 800,000 homeless
destitutes now are living in 460 internal refugee camps ) the most basic rights
to survival such as government housing, government-issued food-aid-stamps and
government unemployment; they are even denied child-benefit and disability
pensions and also are denied treatment at the vast majority of government-health
facilities despite their dire poverty. The ANC-government is also making a very
organised effort to stop them from being educated in their own language and own
cultural background: such cultural suppression forms an integral part of the
genocidal process.

South Africa thus is the only country
in the world which has actually made laws to 'protect' the
majority population from a very small minority group... whereas such laws in the
rest of the world are usually always intended to protect
minorities.  

More than 63% of all these
destitute Afrikaner inmates in the internal refugee camps around greater
Pretoria especially - are older than 60 years reports Solidarity trade union's
Helping Hand charity. The vast majority of these camp-inmates also are amongst
the best-educated people in South Africa and still badly needed in the
maintenance of the SA economy: nurses, municipal engineers, teachers, skilled
mineworkers, artisans. municipal clerks, government department clerks,
law-court officials, etc. Yet  despite the huge present shortage of
skilled workers at all levels of society in SA - forcing the government to even
import doctors, nurses, teachers etc. from Cuba and Morocco, for instance -
the ANC-regime refuses to hire even the best-educated
Afrikaners and also despite repeated appeals,  refusesto end its so-called 'black-economic-empowerment' laws which have
brought the Afrikaners into this serious situation of homelessness and
destitution. 

The ANC-regime claims that 'the top jobs
are still held by whites', however their claims are grossly inaccurate:
more than 68% of all the government jobs now are held by blacks across all
sectors: and the few top management jobs still held by 'whites' are held by
English-speakers, usually immigrants on temporary contracts. Anyone moving about
in public life in South Africa today can attest to the fact that there are very
few whites actually still seen working in for instance banks, supermarkets etc.

Meanwhile there are many tens of thousands
of public- and private-sector jobs especially in the health- and
education-sectors for which no "suitable candidates can be found' ("suitable" as
in suitable black candidates only) and thus these jobs are deliberately kept
open rather than hiring qualified Afrikaner whites languishing in the
internal-refugee camps.

The German nazis also barred Jews
from all public life between 1933-1945...

This entire process presents a very similar
picture to those many nazi-era laws made against the Jews of Europe during the
nazi-occupation of the continent now generally referred to as the 'Neurenberg
Laws'. These were designed to eradicate the ability of European Jews to survive:
and as now also occurs in South Africa, European Jews from 1933 also were barred
from public life, legal employment, home- and land-ownership, barred from access
to public education and increasingly also pushed into 'internal refugee camps
(ghettos) before their final annihilation.   As a Norwegian citizen,
you are undoubtedly familiar with the final results of the nazi-laws in Europe.

Similar increasingly desperate events are
now taking place targetting the Afrikaners - and although they are a very small,
highly visible and indeed very unfavoured minority because of their
apartheid-history  (which their pre-1994 leaders indeed recognised as
untenable) -- I still consider the ruling SA troika's behaviour towards the
Afrikaners as completely unacceptable and indeed a gross transgression of
every human rights law in the world.  Even the Unrepresented Nations
and Peoples' Organisation (UNPO) in The Hague has raised the ANC's deliberate
suppression of the Afrikaner minority: 

http://www.unpo.org/article/11177

  

I now receive near-daily reports of
newborns and especially the elderly, dying of malnutrition and preventable
diseases in the internal refugee camps for Afrikaners - mainly because they are
being denied all government-food-aid and the one private charity which still
tries to keep all 800,000 Afrikaners in these camps fed, can now only afford to
feed them one small meal a day because their funding from their private donors
is drying up: the special-skills mineworkers and Afrikaner artisans and
engineers who were still able to get contract-jobs in the private
sector and (the shrinking number of) commercial farmers still able to supply
food to the camps.

These Afrikaners are also denied most
access to the government's medical facilities -- which were mostly built from
Afrikaner taxes before 1994 -- and thus many also are dying of many infectious
diseases which could be easily cured with basic health-care and medicines. Even
when they are suffering from infectious diseases they are sent away by
government-health facilities and sent back to their camps: where infections such
as hepatitis now are spreading rapidly. They are so malnutritioned now
after some ten years of poor living conditions that many, especially the
elderly, look like walking skeletons. The Afrikaner women in these
camps also have had to resort to set up their own little maternity cottages
where, fortunately, some qualified (unemployable) midwives often still are able
to deliver their babies under dismal conditions. Some private doctors also step
in to volunteer their help in the most extreme cases, but the suffering in these
camps are becoming very severe.

This truly is a totally unacceptable and
inhumane situation - yet you said you 'read it with interest' and 'thanked me
for my time'. Forgive me for not being impressed with your shallow and in my
view, very uncaring reply.

I attack a photograph which was included in
a report to President Jacob Zuma about Afrikaner poverty in August 2010 by
Solidarity trade union's "Helping Hand' charity.  It's only one of many
showing the horrific conditions in these camps. Keep in mind that these are some
of the best-educated people on the African continent. The Dutch investigative
journalist Saskia Vredeveld also recently published a report about poverty in
two specific internal-refugee camps in Coronation park near Johannesburg on
IKON-TV in the Netherlands.

• White Poverty in the New South Africa by Saskia
  Vredeveld 


• http://nos.nl/audio/99101-white-poverty-in-the-new-south-africa.html

Regards

Adriana Stuijt

Retired SAjournalist,