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teargas Gas fired at pre-summit demo, Klein and Shiva included

terminal person | 24.08.2002 17:08

teagas is used on protestors in J,berg, including Naiomi Klein Vanadava Shiva,

btw, not just highlighting 'famous plp' but the worlds media will pick up on this...

Total onslaught as police fire teargas on Vandana Shiva and Naomi Klein
by Indymedia South Africa • Saturday August 24, 2002 at 01:59 PM


The IFG have just closed today’s forum at Wits University with a rally in support of the freedom of expression, and against the brutal clampdown on dissent. The IFG delegates are joining the Anti Privatisation Forum in a march to Thabo Mbeki Square (formerly the famous John Vorster Square). Moments ago, the marchers were attempting to leave the university campus on route to the police station where over 250 members of the Soldiers Forum and Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) were until yesterday detained...

Police had cordoned off the rally and are now trying to restrict it to the university campus. With such heavy security deployment and with the police seeing only red, the prospect of arrests is not unlikely. Vandana Shiva and Naomi Klein, among the most prominent of the IFG speakers, are participating in the march and could well found themselves victims of the South African government’s ‘total onslaught’.

News just in is that the police have fired teargas on the marchers and have arrested a reknowned South African filmmaker, Rehad Desai. The marchers are refusing to leave the point of confrontation until Rehad is released.

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24.08.2002 23:22

more on the happenings today and yesterday:


"The Landless People's Movement (LPM) on Saturday claimed that a female protester miscarried after Johannesburg Central police refused to respond to her calls for medical help."
 http://news.24.com/News24/South_Africa/0,1113,2-7_1247207,00.html


"Only a few minutes after the marchers had left Wits University, the police fired 4 or 5 stun grenades at the crowd, injuring at least two people. One, Karen Locq, a Canadian, is reported to have a nasty burn on her calf. The other, Dudu, a march organiser, is said to have dislocated a knee."
 http://www.dailysummit.net/archives/week_2002_08_18.shtml#000236

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