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As South Africa's last head of state from the era of white-minority rule, he and his government dismantled the apartheid system and introduced universal suffrage. Ideologically a social conservative and an economic liberal , he led the National Party (NP) from 1989 to 1997.
President of the Republic of China (1944–1945) 1946: Treason (Executed by firing squad) Liang Hongzhi: Collaborationist China: President of the Reformed Government of the Republic of China (1938–1940) 1946: Treason (Executed by firing squad) Kōki Hirota Japan: Prime Minister of Japan (1936–1937) 1946: Crimes against humanity (Executed by ...
Donald C. Rickard (2 March 1928 – 30 March 2016) was an American diplomat for the State Department and spy for the Central Intelligence Agency.Shortly before his death, Rickard claimed to have provided the information that led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962 due to allegations of communist influence under Mandela while he was working as a vice-consul in Durban, South Africa.
He attempted to travel to Zimbabwe in 2008, but was stopped by President Robert Mugabe's government. [357] In December 2008, Carter met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad , [ 358 ] [ 359 ] and in a June 2012 call with Jeffery Brown , he stressed that Egyptian military generals could take full executive and legislative power to form a new ...
The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was the first major group devoted to the anti-apartheid campaign. [8] Founded in 1953 by Paul Robeson and a group of civil rights activist, the ACOA encouraged the U.S. government and the United Nations to support African independence movements, including the National Liberation Front in Algeria and the Gold Coast drive to independence in present-day ...
Taylor Taranto, a Jan. 6 defendant who was arrested near former President Obama's home after former President Trump posted the address faces new gun charges.
Google has fired more than two dozen employees for protesting the company's $1.2 billion contract to provide the Israeli government and military with cloud and artificial intelligence services.
The crime of apartheid is defined by the 2002 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as inhumane acts of a character similar to other crimes against humanity "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the ...