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标 题: 都来看看 - 美国2008年以前都把曼德拉列为恐怖分子
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 10 09:42:20 2013, 美东)
尽管今天美国隆重纪念死去的曼德拉，但是直到2008年美国一直把他列为恐怖分子。
US government considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/07/21794290-us-
From the White House to the halls of Congress, U.S. government officials
have responded to the death of Nelson Mandela with a hail of testimonials to
the late South African president’s leadership in the struggle for freedom
and human rights.
Until five years ago, however, the U.S. officially considered Mandela a
terrorist. During the Cold War, both the State and Defense departments
dubbed Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress, a
terrorist group, and Mandela’s name remained on the U.S. terrorism watch
list till 2008.
Presidents Carter and Reagan and Congress had all instituted sanctions
against the white minority South African government because of its policy of
racial apartheid. But in 1986, Reagan condemned Mandela’s group, the ANC,
which was leading the black struggle against the apartheid regime, saying it
engaged in "calculated terror ... the mining of roads, the bombings of
public places, designed to bring about further repression."
After the apartheid regime in South Africa declared the ANC a terrorist
group, the Reagan administration followed suit.
In August of 1988, the State Department listed the ANC among "organizations
that engage in terrorism.” It said the group ''disavows a strategy that
deliberately targets civilians,” but noted that civilians had “been
victims of incidents claimed by or attributed to the ANC. |
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