White supremacist leader killed in South Africa

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

White supremacist leader killed in South Africa
The Associated Press
Saturday, April 3, 2010; 6:27 PM

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa's white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche was bludgeoned to death by two farm workers Tuesday evening in an apparent dispute over wages, police said.

Terreblanche, 69, was leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging movement, better known as the AWB, that wanted to create three all-white republics within South Africa in which blacks would be allowed only as guest workers.

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The AWB was a semisecret organization for years. When it "came out" in 1979, the movement displayed its Nazi-like insignia and declared opposition to any parliamentary democracy.

Terreblanche would arrive at meetings on horseback flanked by masked bodyguards dressed in khaki or black and became a charismatic leader for a small minority that could not envision a South Africa under the democratic rule of a black majority. At one rally his guards, dubbed "storm troopers" after the Nazis, brandished guns, police batons and knives, prompting the government to announce it was "looking into" the actions and attitudes of the movement.

Terreblanche threatened to take the country by force if the white government capitulated to the African National Council.



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