Sep 03 2008
Background
By the end of the 1950s, a country known as South-West Africa had begun to struggle against the race-based policies enforced by their occupier, South Africa. Newly formed domestic groups, particularly the South-West African National Union (SWANU), the Herero Council, and the South-West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) protested South African rule and the racial system of apartheid. South Africa refused to negotiate with these anti-colonial organizations and instead banned their meetings and persecuted their members. By 1966 the newly formed People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) launched a war of independence. That year, the United Nations decided to rescind South Africa’s mandate over Namibia. In the face of noncompliance from South Africa, the International Court of Justice upheld UN authority in Namibia and declared South African interference in the country illegal. In 1990, after decades of international negotiations and domestic violence, Namibia became independent.
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