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August 20, 2014

Top U.N. Human Rights Official: "Apartheid Is Flourishing" in Parts of the United States 
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The U.N. high commissioner for human rights has condemned the police
crackdown on protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In an interview with
Reuters, Navi Pillay said the United States should "cherish ... people's
right to protest." Pillay also compared the clashes in Ferguson to those
sparked by apartheid in her native South Africa, saying, "These scenes
are familiar to me, and privately I was thinking that there are many
parts of the United States where apartheid is flourishing."

 

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