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  • Goldstone Ordered Execution of Blacks Under Apartheid

    05/05/2010 4:16:34 PM PDT · by Tigen · 19 replies · 937+ views
    INN ^ | 5-5-10 | Reported
    Israeli newspaper Yediot Achoronot is publishing an expose on Judge Richard Goldstone who headed up the UN's Goldstone commission on Israel's Cast Lead operation which accussed Israel of committing "war crimes". The paper reveals that as a judge on South Africa's Transvaal Supreme Court from 1980 until he was appointed judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in 1989, Goldstone enforced the draconian "emergency laws" of the Apartheid regime. The paper reports that in the 1980's Goldstone sentenced dozens of blacks to be hanged. Goldstone responded to the report by saying, "Those were the rules, and I had...