Apartheid not a crime against humanity, says AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel
There were not enough people killed during apartheid to justify it being called a crime against humanity, AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel said on Monday. "The figure we have is that 600 people were killed in the [19]90s. In the ’80s and early ’90s people died during the people’s war conducted by the ANC," Kriel said. Asked how many deaths would warrant it being classified as a crime against humanity, Kriel said: "A decision to eradicate people by Adolf Hitler." Kriel told 702 radio talkshow host Eusebius McKaiser he did not believe that apartheid was a crime against humanity. On Monday night he defended himself, saying he recognised the system was "an infringement of the rights of other people based on their race". However, in an apparent contradiction he insisted the UN was wrong to call it a crime against humanity. "There were never mass killings of people under apartheid as we saw under communism when the Jews were killed. When you speak about a concept of apartheid as a crime against...
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