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Victims of apartheid can sue multinationals

Thousands of South Africans who suffered under apartheid won the right yesterday to sue a number of companies, including BP, Citigroup and Ford, for allegedly helping to perpetrate human rights abuses. - Suzy Jagger in New York
Click HERE to read the full article on the The Times online website.

"That could include, for example, proving that a motor company knew that lorries that it sold in South Africa would be used as armoured vehicles to destroy townships."
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