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The experience of South Africa Today
Our Rainbow Nation will the world ignore the truth or save us from Genocide.
Our Rainbow Nation will the world ignore the truth or save us from Genocide.
Why are Afrikaner farmers being
murdered in South Africa?
by Leon
Parkin & Gregory H. Stanton, President – Genocide Watch
14 August 2012
The following report is the
result of an intensive personal inquiry in South Africa conducted July 23
-27, 2012.
Deliberate inaction of the
South African Government has weakened rural security structures, facilitating
Afrikaner farm murders, in order to terrorize white farmers into vacating
their farms, advancing the ANC/S. A. Communist Party’s New Democratic Revolution
(NDR.)
The South African Government for the last 18
years has adopted a policy of deliberate government abolition and disarmament
of rural Commandos run by farmers themselves for their own
self-defense. The policy has resulted in a four-fold increase in the
murder rate of Afrikaner commercial farmers. This policy is aimed at
forced displacement through terror. It advances the goals of the South
African Communist Party’s New Democratic Revolution (NPR), African National Part (ANC) which aims at
nationalization of all private farmland, mines, and industry in South
Africa. Disarmament, coupled with Government removal of security
structures to protect the White victim group, follows public dehumanization
of the victims, and facilitates their forced displacement and gradual genocide.
Afrikaner farm owners
are being murdered at a rate four times the murder rate of other South
Africans, including Black farm owners. Their families are also subjected to
extremely high crime rates, including murder, rape, mutilation and torture of
the victims. South African police fail to investigate or solve many of these
murders, which are carried out by organized gangs, armed with weapons
that police have previously confiscated. The racial character of the
killing is covered up by a SA government order prohibiting police from
reporting murders by race. Instead the crisis is denied and the murders
are dismissed as ordinary crime, ignoring the frequent mutilation of the
victims’ bodies, a sure sign that these are hate crimes.
However, independent researchers have compiled
accurate statistics demonstrating convincingly that murders among White farm
owners occur at a rate of 97 per 100,000 per year, compared to 31 per 100,000
per year in the entire South African population, making the murder rate of
White SA farmers one of the highest murder rates in the world. http://youtu.be/6fzRSE_p1Ys http://youtu.be/BFWEtdZ5TWA
Incitement to genocide is a
crime under the International ConveYsntion for the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crime of Genocide, to which South Africa is a state-party.
The ANC government has promoted hate speech that
constitutes “incitement to genocide.” The President of the ANC Youth
League, Julius Malema, revived the "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer"
hate song at ANC rallies, until it was declared to be hate speech by a South
African judge, and Malema was enjoined from singing it. For other
reasons, Malema was later removed as ANCYL President. His followers
continue to sing the hate song, and the Deputy President of the ANCYL has
called for “war,” against “white settlers.”
After the judge’s injunction to halt singing of
the hate song, even the President of South Africa, ANC leader Jacob Zuma,
himself, began to sing the “Shoot the Boer” song. Since Zuma
began to sing the hate song on 12 January 2012, murders of White farmers
increased every month through April 2012, the last month for which there are
confirmed figures.
There is thus strong
circumstantial evidence of government support for the campaign of forced
displacement and atrocities against White farmers and their families. There
is direct evidence of SA government incitement to genocide.
Forced displacement from their
farms has inflicted on the Afrikaner ethnic group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its complete or partial physical destruction, an
act of genocide also prohibited by the Genocide Convention.
High-ranking ANC government officials who
continuously refer to Whites as “settlers” and “colonialists of a
special type” are using racial epithets in a campaign of state-sponsored
dehumanization of the White population as a whole. They sanction
gang-organized hate crimes against Whites, with the goal of terrorizing
Whites through fear of genocidal annihilation.
What is dehumanization?
The process of dehumanization has the effect of
numbing and decommissioning the moral sentiments of the perpetrator
group. Polarization creates the “us vs. them” mentality, in SA the
“Indigenous Black People” group versus the “White Settler
Colonialist” group.
ANC leaders publicly incite
followers using racial epithets. By dehumanizing the White
victim group, members of the perpetrator group exclude the victim
group from their circle of moral obligation not to kill its
members. Dehumanization is the systematic,
organized strategy of leaders to remove the inherent natural
human restraints of people not to murder, rape, or torture other human
beings. Taking the life of a dehumanized person becomes of no greater
consequence than crushing an insect, slaughtering an animal, or killing a
pest.
The ANC denies its genocidal intentions.
But the South African Communist Party is more open about its plan to drive
Whites out of South Africa. Gugile Nkwinti, South Africa’s Minister of Rural
Development and Land Reform has declared that all “colonial struggles are
about two things: ‘repossession of the land and the centrality of the
indigenous population.’” Mister Nkwinti is confirming the goals of the South
African Communist Party’s New Democratic Revolution (NDR) and stating that
the colonial struggle is not yet over in post-1994 South Africa. He is
saying that Whites are unwelcome “settler colonialists” with no role to play
in South Africa’s future.
The Transvaal Agricultural Union, Freedom Front,
Democratic Alliance, IFP, Afriforum and numerous other organizations have on
a regular basis called for the South African Government to declare farm
murders and rural policing a South African government priority.
The President, who should be the guardian of the constitutional rights of all
the people, has deliberately ignored these calls for action.
Former President F. W. De Klerk, on 25 July
2012 during the De Klerk Foundation's Crossroads conference correctly accused
the current generation of ANC leaders of cynically manipulating racial
sensitivities for political ends. In our analysis, the current ANC
leadership also publicly uses incitement to genocide with the long-term
goal of forcibly driving out or annihilating the White population from
South Africa.
This report has explained the rationale for the
deliberate inaction of South African government functionaries to prevent,
prosecute, or stop the murders of Afrikaner farmers. As a group,
Afrikaner farmers stand in the way of the South African Communist Party’s
goal to implement their Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist New Democratic Revolution
and specifically the confiscation of all rural land belonging to White
Afrikaner farmers.
Genocide Watch is moving South
Africa back to Stage 6, the Preparation stage in the genocidal process.
Copyright 2012 Leon Parkin &
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
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South Africa – Official Hate
Speech
Stage 5: Polarization
By Genocide Watch -
12 July 2012
The African National Congress has
been South Africa’s governing party since the Presidency of Nelson Mandela 17
years ago, following the end of white minority rule and apartheid. In
the years under apartheid, hate speech was used by both supporters and
opponents of the apartheid system to stir up their followers. When
racial tensions in South Africa ran high, the song “Kill the Farmer, Shoot
the Boer” was a revolutionary song of the anti-apartheid movement.
However, it is an illustration of the long-term impact that such
de-humanizing language can have.
After many years when such songs were no longer
sung, in 2010, prominent members of the ANC Youth League, in particular
Julius Malema, President of the ANC Youth League, openly sang the “Shoot the
Boer” song at ANC Youth League rallies. Not only did revival of the
song strike fear into the hearts of Boer farmers, but it has actually been
sung during attacks on white farmers. It is an incitement to murder white
Afrikaner farmers.
Over 3000 white farmers have been murdered since
1994. The South African police have not made investigation and prosecution of
these farm murders a priority, dismissing them as crimes by common
criminals. The government has disbanded the commando units of white
farmers that once protected their farms, and has passed laws to confiscate
the farmers’ weapons. Disarmament of a targeted group is one of the
surest early warning signs of future genocidal killings.
A recent outbreak of violent farm invasions has
led to casualties among white South Africans. The farm invasions are direct
results of calls by Julius Malema and his Deputy, Ronald Lamola for whites to
give up their land without compensation, or face violence by angry black
youths “flooding their farms.”
In response to Julius Malema, the Freedom Front
(FF) cited Section 16.2c of the South African Constitution, which restricts
freedom of speech rights by excluding as unprotected speech "advocacy of
hatred based on race, ethnicity, gender or religion and incitement to cause
harm.” The FF contended that Malema’s singing of the “Shoot the Boer” song
was hate speech and therefore a human rights violation. Acting Judge of the
South Gauteng High Court, Leon Halgryn declared that the song is hate speech,
and it is unconstitutional to either utter or sing “dubul’ibhunu” (“shoot the
Boer.”) He issued an injunction against Malema, ordering him to no longer
sing the song. The phrase is now considered hate speech.
Julius Malema was shortly thereafter removed as
President of the ANC Youth League, and ejected from the ANC. However,
Malema’s followers have defied the judgment and continue to sing the song.
Even
President Jacob Zuma sang “Shoot the
Boer” at the ANC Centenary Celebration event in January of 2012. He
claimed that its use at the ANC Centenary was not intended as hate speech,
but rather to commemorate the struggle against apartheid.
Despite President Zuma’s proclaimed
intent, his singing of the song may be contributing to an increasingly
hostile environment that threatens the safety of white South Africans.
The number of murders of Boer farmers has increased each month in 2012.
For ten years, Genocide Watch has been
the only international human rights group willing to declare an Alert about
the high murder rate of Boer farmers, perhaps because it is not “politically
correct” to defend the rights of people who once supported apartheid.
Genocide Watch is opposed to all forms of racism, from whatever the source.
The President of Genocide Watch actively supported the anti-apartheid
movement in constitutional consultations with the United Democratic Front
when he was a Fulbright Professor of Law in Swaziland. He has visited
South Africa several times since and will soon visit again.
According to the Genocide Watch 8
stages of Genocide, South Africa remains at stage 5: Polarization.
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South
Africa: Polarized Country
South African Farm Invasions Are Threatened by
the ANC Youth League
Genocide
Watch Report:
4 July 2012
Following the end of Apartheid, in 1994 the South
African government enacted a land reform program in hopes of addressing the
longstanding issue of land distribution. Under black majority rule, the
South African government’s first attempt at land distribution was through the
“willing seller-willing buyer” program, which was a “buy back” program.
Through this program the government would purchase land from willing white
sellers and redistribute it to members of the black community. It was
estimated that the program would cost the government upwards of ten billion
dollars to execute, a budget it does not have the funds to meet.
The program was ultimately a failure.
To date only 6% of the land has been successfully redistributed.
President Jacob Zuma has openly admitted that the “willing seller – willing
buyer” model will not work. His administration has since proposed a new plan
in “The Green Paper,” which critics have criticized as vague, and avoiding
many existing problems.
Unrest is brewing among black South
Africans as the land distribution problem remains unresolved. Warnings
of “inevitable” farm invasions by the African National Congress Youth League
have caused great fear among white farmers, many of whom are Boers,
descendents of the original Dutch settlers, who consider themselves Africans
because they have lived in South Africa for hundreds of years.
Following Zimbabwe’s hostile land
invasions, leaders of the ANC Youth League have promised to follow Robert
Mugabe’s example, and forcibly expropriate farms owned by whites. Julius
Malema, at the time President of the ANC Youth League, has demanded that
expropriation should be without compensation. He urged his followers to “take
back the land that was illegally stolen by the white man from the black man.”
Malema is a racist Marxist-Leninist, and espouses an ideology contrary to the
ANC’s “willing seller-willing buyer” program, which would provide farmers
with financial compensation for their land. Malema has since been
removed as ANC Youth League President and expelled from the ANC.
At a Youth League Policy workshop,
Ronald Lamola, declared, "If they don't want to see angry black youths
flooding their farms they must come to the party....Whites must volunteer
some of the land and mines they own." Lamola explained, “But white
South Africans must continue to participate, they remain relevant to this
process and will continue to do so." His comments were followed by
warnings of a “Zim-style takeover.” The ANC Youth League demands that the
South African Constitution be amended to permit state approved uncompensated
land expropriations.t
Genocide Watch considers land
redistribution to be a ticking time bomb in South Africa. If the
wealthy countries of the world do not assist South Africa in resolving it by
financing compensation of land-sellers, the “rainbow nation” could descend
into violence and go the way of Zimbabwe.
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