Tuesday, April 21, 2009

US court allows apartheid cases

A US court has ruled that victims of South Africa's apartheid-era government can sue General Motors, IBM and other corporations accused of complicity in human rights abuses.

The lawsuits argue that the car-makers knew their vehicles were being used by South African forces to violently suppress protests.They also claim that IBM and Fujitsu knew their computers were being used by South Africa's white minority government to help strip black citizens of their rights...

[So manufacturers of anything are now to be responsible for how anyone uses them? We need overhaul our broken judicial system.]

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