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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The racist regimes in Southern Africa

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bear direct responsibility for their crimes.

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For their crimes.

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Among these crimes are the massacre of children,

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the killing of people under preliminary arrest,

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large scale use of torture against freedom fighters,

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eviction of African civilians from their lands,

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suppression of the national freedom movement,

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and of aggression against the people of Angola and property,

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and the occupation of Namibia.

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The roundtable demonstrated the growing unity of the women's movement

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in opposing arms supplies to the racist regimes,

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and exposing the plans for an aggressive self-entitled block

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and the supplying of some of South Africa with new weapons.

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A roundtable call on all the progressive forces the world over

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to support the peoples of the Southern Africa in their struggle for freedom and independence.

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Under their own democratic organizations: African National Congress Congress of South Africa,

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the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe,

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and the Southwest African Peoples Organization of Namibia,

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and to give them all the financial, material, and diplomatic assistance they require.

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The meeting discussed active cooperation by the women of all continents

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with the women of Africa, and noted the development

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of the participation of African women in public life and in the struggle for liberation.

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