UN General Assembly
1968

30. South Africa continues to maintain its illegal control over Namibia. The people of that Territory continue to be subjected to blatant indignities and to the application of pernicious forms of the policy of apartheid. The situation in Zimbabwe is no better. None of the steps adopted by the United Nations has led to progress towards majority rule and a just society free from discrimination. The illegal Smith régime becomes more intransigent as each day passes. Atrocities are committed; freedom fighters are repressed; executions are carried out without any legal authority whatsoever. As far as the Portuguese colonies are concerned, Portugal has persistently refused to decolonize the territories under its administration and has, in fact, been resorting to brutal military operations against the people of those territories. Those are but a few examples of the rule of force being applied with scant respect for the just aspirations of the peoples to whom those territories rightfully belong. Obdurate refusal to accept peaceful solutions will inevitably breed violence.