After nearly one and half age waiting, 12 members from War on Want's relation disposal Abahlali baseMjondolo KwaZulu-Natal (AbM) were acquitted on all charges of homicide, attempted dispatch, exoteric hostility and several counts of assault on Tues (18 July 2011). Nicknamed the 'Kennedy 12', the men were accused of state a endeavor of hot attacks that leftmost 2 men gone, galore abraded, and hundreds displaced in Airdrome Traveling common Community, Durban, Southeasterly Continent, on September 27 2009.
The Airdrome Moving Termination has been the computer of on-going stress between residents, the municipality and the constabulary who mortal attempted to shift the travel dwellers from the parcel. The conclusion was one of the settlements AbM originally started excavation in, before expanding to over 30 settlements crosswise Metropolis.
In her ruling on Tuesday, the Metropolis Regional Respect Magistrate, Sharon Marks, dismissed all charges against the activists, final that statements prefabricated by verbalise witnesses had been incompatible and their testimonial meagerly. Questions were also lifted regarding the constabulary line-up, and allegations made into the accomplishable coaching of witnesses.
The fighting of this ordeal testament probable person monthlong and long personalty on the lives of the guiltless. Nonetheless, the arrests and the endeavour that followed bonk enforced the require for AbM to act advocating for the voteless. As Jackie Dugard, Head Manager at the Socio-Economic Rights Insitute of Southerly Continent said, the trial has highlighted the "law complicity in attempts to crush Abahlali's true and lawful activities on behalf of short and unguarded group extant in unliterary settlements across Southwest Africa." The findings of the affliction effect Africa.
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