{UAH} ON THIS DAY WHEN ALL LIVES DIDN'T MATTER UNDER APARTHEID.

Fellow citizens,

Lets put away all the 'holier than thou' posturing for just one second.

When you say that 'All Lives Matter', you know that's a clear lie, don't you?

So why are you openly lying?

I'm stating this on this day June 16th, it was once a very specially day designated in 1977 by the United Nations as the International day in solidarity with the people of South Africa struggling against Apartheid. For years, huge concerts and mega public events used to be held on this very day around the world calling for an end to Apartheid, with people holding the famous "Free Mandela" placards.

I won't go too much into which African leader pushed for this UN resolution. It should be obvious who was leading the continents fight against Apartheid at the time. But this resolution was passed following an African and international outrage at the brutality by which the Soweto students protests was quashed by the Apartheid junta in South Africa. A racist regime which was openly supported by many Western governments including Britain, US, Israel and others. Surprisingly Kenya in East Africa as well, largely seen as traitors by African governments at the time because Kenya, under their founding independence President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, was the only African country cojoled by the colonial master into supporting the Apartheid regime despite all the suffering and discrimination against black people in South Africa.

I am shocked to find the young South African panAfricanists of today praising Jomo Kenyatta who helped Apartheid oppress them, yet the same youths can be found cursing President Idi Amin who actually fought tooth and nail for them to have all the freedom and liberty that all black South Africans are enjoying today.

The Soweto protests started on June 16th 1976, barely a month before my late father's tenure as Chairman of the African Union ended, a tenure during which His Excellency President Idi Amin relentlessly advocated for the formation of a unified African force to liberate South Africa from Apartheid using military means. While other countries were still flip-flopping on the subject, he organized an airforce and ground troops who were already training together with South African anti-apartheid freedom fighters in Uganda.

The response of the racist Apartheid regime to that June 16th public uprising by the black people of South Africa was alarmingly brutal, and traumatizingly bloody. Many students died and many more were injured and countless others imprisoned in the gallows of the heartless Apartheid police. The very torture chambers where barely three months after this UNbresolution was passed, anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was arrested an thrown into before being tortured and brutally murdered by the Apartheid regime.

Those who want a glimpse of that episode please look for the movie named "Steve Biko". I was a student in France when I saw that movie and it is what woke me up to what Apartheid really was. Something changed in me from that day.

Once Apartheid was abolished, the world must have felt that it wasn't necessary anymore to remember the UN solidarity against Apartheid. I am sure the political powers of this world have quietly been working to reduce the significance of that UN resolution, and to obscure the true place that Apartheid holds in world history next to Hitler, King Leopold II of Belgium, and the Slave trade.

Which is probably why in February this year, Former Apartheid president F. W. De Klerk attempted to put his knee back on the throats of black South Africans by stating publicly that Apartheid wasn't a crime against humanity.

How dare he utter such an obscenity in broad daylight.

He must have only felt emboldened enough to make that statement because the African and international solidarity that existed in support of black South Africa has probably somehow been nudged to lower it's guard against institutionalized racism. Leaving only a handful of politicians within South Africa to be on guard against any resurgence of discrimination and supremacist bigotry in the country.

But at this time when a global pandemic has obscured most concerns, I would like to republish a public appeal which I made to the people of South Africa last February and which was published in The Africa Observer (see link below), to remind them that the task of unequivocally and permanently shaming the racist devil of Apartheid, and not ever allowing it any passage or future political legitimacy whatsoever, that task is abeolutely not over yet. Especially since Mr. De Klerk, and many like him, possibly feel that they could take this opportunity to rally the racist spirit, legitimize their bigotry, then rise and shine again.

I would like to remind all Ugandans and all Africans, incluring the continents leaders, and all the well wishers around the world currently protesting against racism following the disturbing pattern of heinous murders of black people by US government public safety personnel, that we should all keep on the fighting spirit, and not lower our guard against racism.

You are fighting the right fight before God.

Racism must be exposed and confronted socially, politically, and before the law. And we must all also ensure that the brutal racist chapter of Apartheid that we remember on this day today, should forever stand as a distinguished infamy of tremendous pain and suffering against mankind.

Black Lives matter!

Signed:Hussein Lumumba Amin

June 16th, 2020.

- The public message to the people of South Africa (February 2020): theafricanobserver.org/public-message-to-the-people-of-south-africa/

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