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April 10, 2009

Court OKs Apartheid Victims’ Suit Against US Companies
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A US court has cleared the way for victims of the South African
apartheid to sue major corporations for supporting human rights abuses.
This week, a federal judge in New York said the foreign-based joint
action can proceed in a US court. The suit accuses car makers General
Motors, Ford and Daimler of knowingly supplying vehicles that were used
to violently suppress protests. The suit also names IBM and Fujitsu for
selling computer technology to the apartheid government.



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