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Titolo: Le Antifade, alla lunga, vincono

Una rivolta spontanea, causata da un'azione apparentemente banale ma
che ha fatto traboccare il vaso.  Una rivolta dominata da ragazzi, con
soldati che sparano a ragazzini che lanciano sassi, e
politici dello stato oppressore che accusano i rivoltosi di "manipolare
bambini per scopi politici"
e di voler distruggere uno stato legalmente costituito.
Una rivolta dove l'oppressore usa la detenzione e il "targeted killing"
(assassinio senza processo).
Una rivolta che, alla fine, ha vinto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto_uprising
Black students in Soweto protested against the Afrikaans Medium Decree
of 1974 which forced all black students to learn the Afrikaans language
and to be taught secondary school mathematics, social sciences,
geography and history in the language.
Punt Janson, the Deputy Minister of Bantu Education at the time, was
quoted as saying: "I have not consulted the African people on the
language issue and I'm not going to. An African might find that 'the
big boss' only spoke Afrikaans or only spoke English. It would be to
his advantage to know both languages."'
The decree was resented deeply by blacks as Afrikaans was widely viewed
as the language of the government which enforced apartheid. The
resentment grew until April 30, 1976, when children at Orlando West
Junior School in Soweto went on strike, refusing to go to school. Their
rebellion then spread to many other schools in Soweto. The students
organised a mass rally for June 16, 1976 to hopefully make themselves
heard by the Bantu Education System
On the morning of June 16, 1976, thousands of black students met for a
rally to protest more effectively against having to learn Afrikaans in
school. Many students who later participated in the protest arrived at
school that morning without knowledge of them soon to be occurring;
they found out about the march that morning, but most agreed to become
involved. The protest was intended to be peaceful and had been
carefully planned by the Soweto Students' Representative Council's
(SSRC) Action Committee, with support from the wider Black
Consciousness Movement. Teachers in Soweto also supported the march
after the Action Committee emphasised good discipline and peaceful
action.
The students began the march only to find out that police had
barricaded the road along their intended route. The leader of the
action committee asked the crowd not to provoke the police and the
march continued on another route, eventually ending up near Orlando
High School. The crowd of between 3,000 and 10,000 students made their
way towards the area of the school; at the same time police called for
reinforcements of officers.
Fatally-wounded Hector Pieterson (12), one of the first fatalities, is
carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo on June 16, 1976, with Antoinette Pieterson
(17) running alongside. Photo by Sam Nzima. [1]
There are various accounts of what started the massacre which followed.
The police had weapons and tear gas while the students were unarmed.
Some reports later claimed that the school children were throwing
stones, while others claim the protests were peaceful with no violent
actions from the children at all.
The police threw canisters of tear gas to disperse the students, who
then began throwing stones in retaliation. The gas forced the crowd to
draw back a little, but they continued singing and waving placards with
slogans including: "Down with Afrikaans", "Viva Azania" and "If we must
do Afrikaans, Vorster must do Zulu". A white male police officer drew
his handgun and fired a shot, causing panic and chaos. Students started
screaming and running and more gunshots were fired. At least 4 children
were shot, the first being Hastings Ndlovu followed by 13 year-old
Hector Pieterson. The photograph taken of his body became a symbol of
police brutality (see right).
The violence escalated as the students panicked, bottle stores and
beerhalls were targeted as many believed that alcohol was used by the
government to control black people.
Emergency clinics were swamped with injured and bloody children as
ambulances came to and fro. Almost all of the children who were brought
in had sustained bullet wounds. The violence had however abated with
nightfall. Police vans and armoured vehicles patrolled the streets
throughout the night.
Emotions ran high after the massacre on June 16. Hostility between
students and the police was intense, with officers shooting at random
and more people joining the protesters. The township youth had been
frustrated and angry for a long time and the riots became the
opportunity to bring to light their grievances.
The 1,500 heavily armed police officers deployed to Soweto on June 17
carried high-powered weapons, including automatic rifles, stun guns and
carbines. They drove around in armoured vehicles with helicopters
monitoring the area from the sky. The South African Army was also order
on standby as a tactical measure to show military force. Basic crowd
control methods were not a part of South African police training at the
time, and many of the officers shot indiscriminately, murdering many
people. This only intensified the students' anger.
...
Many consider the riots an event which signified the beginning of the
end for apartheid. The effects of the riots echoed across the country.
After the riots, many black citizens were awakened to the reality of
apartheid, and started to resist, while some white citizens also
withdrew their support for the government. Despite continuing
government crackdowns, popular unrest and opposition to apartheid
continued to grow until the end of the 1980s. Local and international
pressure led to the negotiated ending of apartheid between 1990 and
1994.

government to control black people.
Cioe' gli "studenti" hanno devastato negozi, a dimostrazione di quanto
fosse "pacifica" la manifestazione.
Alla fine il solito paragone del ca**o del solito fessacchiotto di un
Torrieri che tenta di fare disinformazione.
-Stefano