kibeho camp

What happend was in the camp, the people who were the boss were criminals and ruled by fear and might, when it came time to root them out from the innocent, the enemies started attacking the innocent with machetes to create a diverson to escape by and eliminate informants, this caused panic which made the rest of the camp surge up to the authoritys who then suspected it to be a riot and open fired, killing thousands, out of missinformation and revenge against those who they believed had killed members of their families.

http://warriordoc.com/rwanda/kibeho.htm

history of apartheid

Apartheid came to south africa with the fight between the dutch and the english, though designed by the loseing side of the dutch apartheid made it self known by placeing the races of the country apart from eachother and cementing whites as the dominant race though also the minority in the land. Every aspect of life had rules separating blacks, whites, and those of mixed race, createing hatred through all of them for each other. Blacks were required to carry pass books showing their standings under apartheid, and misstake was delt with imediatly and harshly. Eventually blacks broke under the weight of apartheid and revolted, a large group refused to carry the pass books and many were killed, the majority who weren't were still wounded. Though most of these horrible asspects of apartheid have been removed the life is still beingled by many, and the fight continues on for equal rights.

1-4 chapter abstract

chapters one through four, show further the normal daily hardships of being an average young boy in the depths of apartheid stricken africa, Mark talks of what the township of alexandra looks like and what the people there think as a whole of their situation.