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SEEING IS believing, it is said. And that has never been more true than it is now, in the age of television, But it should also be said that secing is not always being, and that

there are facts and facts.

That is particularly true in the case of South Africa. Night after night we hear how civil rights and freedoms are being cut in that country, and as often as it can reach him by satellite the CBC’ trots out Archbishop Desmond Tutu to confirm all the bad news.

The result of such coverage has been a world-wide campaign against the white South Africans. In Canada, tunatic politicians call for the breaking of diplomatic relations, and nincompoops like Richard Attenborough rush off to make propaganda movies like Cry Freedom.

We love the double standard, too. Our media and parliamen- tarians never stop to think that the violence used in South Africa in defence of white rule is nothing compared with what the Soviets have done in the USSR to perpetuate rule by Russians.

Writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, Andrew Kenny, a South African opponent of apartheid, shows how fatheaded we are.

Have you ever heard of Burun- di? ft is a small country just south.of Tanzania on the right- hand side of the map of Africa. It has a population of 4.5 million, 85 per cent of whom are Hutus. Like South Africa, it is ruled by a minority, in this case the Tutsi.

Tutsi rule is based entirely on

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HIKERS RETURNING from conquering the peaks of the Lions may find their cars have been.tow- ed in their absence. - :

- Lions. ‘Bay, Village. ‘Council

agreed Monday: night ‘to ‘take ac- _ tion to put an-end to parking pro-

blems near the Lions hiking trail.

The path begins on Crown land at the end of Sunset Road, a resi- dential street in the village.

“Jes a nightmare in the summer time,’’: reported | Ald. — Rilla Buckley, ‘‘especially for (residents) with young kids.’’

No-parking signs: are already posted on the street, but violators continue to leave their cars there in

such numbers that’ road access for

race, and in 1972 the underdog Hutus rose in rebellion against their masters. But let me now turn the story over to Mr. Kenny:

“The Tutsi quickly put down the rebellion, and then, systematically, in cold blood, set about the slaughter of every Hutu man, woman and child with more than a primary school education. It was their Final Solution of the Hutu problem.

“Hutu teachers, adirinistrators, clerks, priests and students were rounded up and killed. At first the killing was done by bullets. later by clubs and hammers.

“Extermination squads moved into the schools, picked out all the children of the Hutu race, herded them into the playgrounds and smashed their skulls with sledgehammers. The broken cor- | pses of black children were piled up in heaps. Between 100,000 and 250,000 people were killed ~ some historians say more.

“This atrocity produced not one peep of protest from the United Nations or the Organization of African Unity or the BBC or the World Council of Churches or the Commonwealth Conference or any part of the anti-apartheid movement.

“Dr. Julius Nyerere of neighboring Tanzania made not a murmer of protest. The newspaper

emergency vehicles is severely im- peded.

. Buckley said that families have had their retaining walls broken down and piles of bark mulch scattered by some of the drivers.

One villager’s suggestion was to issue a parking decal to Lions Bay residents, and to tow away any cars not displaying the sticker.

Ald. Brenda Broughton propos- ed that the Ministry of Forests be asked to provide a parking area. Mayor Gordon Prescott noted that the request had already been put forward to the ministry, with no results to date.

He said, however, that he felt this might be an unfortunate solu- tion, as it could encourage increas-

editors and statesmen of the world remained silent. There were no demonstrations or rallies. The massacre did not inspire a single film or play or protest song. In all the world outside of Burundi, there was no one to shed a tear for the fallen Tutu.”

Mr. Kenny has asked anti- apartheiders ‘‘over and over again’’ why they have never con- demned the racial extermination in Burundi. (They cannot plead ig-

;norance. The news was there for anyone who wanted to use it, even if it was buried. | mentioned the massacre in a book I wrote in the 1970s.)

The real reason for the anti- apartheiders’ silence in the one case and loudness in the other, he says, was that they themselves are racists, The offenders in South Africa are white, and are therefore to be condemned. The incom- parably worse offenders in Burun- di are black, and are therefore not to be condemned.

The writer also theorizes that consciously or unconsciously, white anti-apartheiders must believe that blacks are morally in- Sferior to white people. There can be no other logical explanation for the double standard, he says.

He points out, too, that nothing like the Tutsis’ bloody oppression of the Hutu has ever happened in South Africa,

The next time Archbishop Tutu is trotted forth to strut his stuff, you might think about all this, @

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ed use of the trail and lead to more traffic through the village.

“Do we want the cars out of there?’’ asked Ald. Dale Klatt. “If we do, Iet’s get them out... don’t think we should pussyfoot around.”’

‘ Prescott agreed that the safety of the villagers and the access of emergency vehicles to their homes was of. paramount importance, saying the issue was ‘‘cut and dried.” ~

Council agreed to send a letter to hiking groups and other con- cerned agencies, stating its intent to tow away vehicles or otherwise enforce parking bylaws in the village.

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