Nelson Mandela was in prison when the ANC started doing this. His letters were censored. His hands were clean (his wife, not so much). And, frankly, if brutally executing collaborators is the worst thing your national liberation movement ever did, you’re one of the good guys.
so the news that his people are doing this atrocity intended to make people talk about it never reaches him by any means including a friendly warder going "hey it's kinda messed up what your people are doing", or toilet paper does not suffice for "hey don't burn people alive"? k
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My point is he wasn’t calling the shots. The head of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, agreed to abide by the Geneva Convention in 1980. Even if l Mandela retained enormous influence over official policy from prison, that policy was already against necklacing.
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Saying he’s complicit because he never condemned it is very different from saying he’s complicit because he made it happen.
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