UN General Assembly
1973

399. We do not look for new insights or for the making of new judgements about the southern African situation. The international community has long been aware that apartheid, with its elements of genocide, and representing as it does a national commitment to racism and all the injustices that spring from it, is one of the historic crimes against humanity. The international community has long accepted the fact that colonialism, by its very nature, is an exploitative system that easily lends itself to racism and to the withholding of the human rights of peoples under colonial domination.