South Africa
Sir,—G. Emerson (January 18) is welcome to argue that a trend can only be established annually, not monthly — although some may disagree — but this view hardly entitles him to accuse me of distorting facts. In any case it is irrelevant to the central issue, namely that claims of juvenile deaths and injuries at the hands of South African security forces, which he tried to dismiss as A.N.C. propaganda, have been substantiated by the evidence of South African Government statistics. It is simply not credible for him to persist in the fiction that these statistics and the claims are unrelated. As for his claim of South African Government' encouragement of first-hand observation; this seems quite contrary to the existence of media restrictions which have the effect not just of preventing “distorted reporting” (as defined aby the Government), but of concealing the more extreme activitiess of the security forces from public scrutiny. — Yours, etc.,
ALISTAIR PRINGLE. January 22,1988.
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