Monday, June 17, 2002

Apartheid Victims to Sue Banks. Standing at the site where apartheid police killed her brother decades ago, Lulu Petersen said Monday she hoped a class-action lawsuit against foreign companies that dealt with the racist, white regime would finally bring her family justice. [AP World News] This attempt at looting through the courts won't exactly encourage investment in South Africa by the various large wealthy banks the looters are targetting. Will their front woman's family really get justice by pushing South Africa more rapidly down the path of Zimbabwe? comment () trackback ()  2:21:02 PM     Hong Kong Falun Gong Trial Starts. Sixteen Falun Gong practitioners went on trial Monday in a case that has raised concern Hong Kong is slowly squeezing the freedoms it promised to uphold when it reverted to Chinese rule five years ago. [AP World News] Well, of course! Did anyone seriously believe that the authoritarian rulers of a basically Communist country would keep their promises? comment () trackback ()  1:52:34 PM

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