The UN investigation team confirmed "clear and convincing evidence" of the use of sarin delivered by surface-to-surface rockets,[18][29] and a 2014 report by the UN Human Rights Council found that "significant quantities of sarin were used in a well-planned indiscriminate attack targeting civilian-inhabited areas, causing mass casualties.
Results of the UN investigation into the Ghouta attack, which is only the most deadly of the chemical attacks during the war.
The Ghouta chemical attack occurred in Ghouta, Syria, during the Syrian civil war, in the early hours of 21 August 2013. Two opposition-controlled areas in the suburbs around Damascus were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin. Estimates of the death toll range from at least 281 people[3] to 1,729.[14] The attack was the deadliest use of chemical weapons since the Iran–Iraq War.
Syrian forces have used chemical weapons against civillian targets in Ghouta.
the Population Registration Act of 1950 classified all South Africans into one of four racial groups: "Black", "white", "Colored", and "Indian." Every citizen over age 18 was required to carry an identity card showing their racial group. If a person’s exact race was unclear, it was assigned by a government board. In many cases, members of the same family were assigned different races when their exact race was unclear
This just shows how identification and classification based off of the premise of looking different, only serves to divide humanity, and can turn into a tool of oppression used by the colonizer against the colonized.
Apartheid, from an Afrikaans word meaning “apart-hood,” refers to a set of laws enacted in South Africa in 1948 intended to ensure the strict racial segregation of South African society and the dominance of the Afrikaans-speaking white minority.
This shows the hypocrisy of the colonizer as they invaded African land, and then demand that the native blacks living on that land, stay in their own place away from the Afrikaaners.
The first apartheid laws were the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, followed by the Immorality Act of 1950, which worked together to prohibit most South Africans from marrying or having sexual relationships with persons of a different race.
This was a ban on inter-racial marriages by the government, which can be linked to the Nazi Genocide. This shows that fascism has to be stopped at the root before it can strangle democracy.
it was the election of the white-ruled Nationalist Party in 1948 that allowed the legal enforcement of pure racism in the form of apartheid.
This shows how important politics and legislation are in preventing the eroding and loss of democratic rights in a nation