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THOU D 0 BLACK
youths 17 or younger pend time in
South African jails or prisors each
year. M t are treet children, a fix­
ture in m t citi .
They are barefoot and unw bed,
their eyes often glazed from sniffing
glue, hand out tretched to beg
money frem drivers topped at traffic
lights.
At night, a dozen or more will
leep huddled together for warmth in
a vacant lot. Some are criminals in
training others merely lost souls from
broken homes.
In a country woefully lacking in
betters, cboots and ocial workers
for wayward Black youths, the prob­
lem i left largely to th police, who
periodically round the youngsters up
and put th m in jail for a night. .
Somestay injail for weeks without
ever being charged with a crime, let
alone convicted, human righ offi-
ci Amy Ric· r
aid he kn 0 children held for up
to a year without being charged. She
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By TUREKA TURK
Mlchlaan Citizen
In the aga of th continuous per-
ecution of human rights advocates of
the 1960 , former Black panther
Geronimo ji Jaga (pratt) was denied
parole for the eleventh time May 21
by the California Board of Pri on
Terms.
The four-hour parole hearing fo­
cused primarily o!l Jaga's history as 8
leader of the Lo Angeles branch of
the Black Panthers. In December of
1�9, the Los Angeles Black Panthers
came under attack from the Lo An­
geles police.
Jaga, a two-year Vietnam veteran, •
used hi military training to ensure the
safety of other Black Panthers. The
incident occurred a few day after the
attack on Chicago Black Panthers
Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, who
were gunned dow n in their homes by
Chicago police.
The parole board citedJaga post­
traurnaticsstres disorder (PTSD) as
grounds for hi parole denial.
VAL RIE W T, TA
counsel for the Parti an Defense
, Committee insists that pri onofficials
have "persistently denied that he uf­
fers from PTSD and therefore refuse
him treatment."
W t al betiev that the parole
oard 1 ignoring m ' ive evidence
that indicates that Jaga i innocent.
On the board i Black L.A. police
chief Willie Williams, who wrote the
the only oppo ition letter of 5 call­
ing for Ja a' rei e.
W t aid that Williams attended a
welcoming gatherin at the Fi t
AM Church in L.A. in April 1 ,
hortly Iter hi appointment. One of
t hurch members. Juli Butler
used to be an FBI/LAPD informant
and, ay W t, w th one to put
J ehind ba 22 yca a .
Last vern r, Butl r w' Cited
lawyer active i;1 church ff 1
and youth counsc'mg in a ' pedal
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FEW PLAC� ARE available in
helte , however, and mo t children
go directly from jail ba k to the
treets.
Thabiso Cebekhulu 14, was' freed
in May afler five months in prison for
stealing a car radio. He aw bigger
inmates I h the arms of malleron
with razors wh n they refused to take
orders.
An aunt greeted him when he was
freed, but within days Thabi 0 re-
turned to'thcb� u Hi
Why? "Beca e my fneoo asked me It
Thabiso aid with a smile and a shrug.
•
, again
ler was a FBI/cop fink who, at
Gernimo's trial. repeatedly lied to th
jury about his relations with the cop
and feds; and who framed Geronimo
fora 1968 murder in Santa Monica the
government know h did not com-
, mit," West says.
"THEY KNOW B AU.·�
wiretap logs', which the FBI claims are
'10 t' prove that Geronimo was 4
miles away in Oakland at the time of
the shooting" he continues.
Despite pleas from trade unions
, representing thousands . elected local
and congressional representatives,
Jaga till remains in pri on.
According to the Parti an Defense
Committee, in 19 Commi ion r
David Brow n landered Jaga as a her­
oin user to counter upport for hi
freedom.
. West ay in 1987, the DA rcpre­
entative' ,Dianne Vezzani, oppo ed
parole on the groun thatJagai" till
a revolutionary."
Jaga's attorney, Adjoa Aiyetero,
plans to appeal the denial. Tho e in­
terested in upported Jaga's cause
may contact the Parti an 0 fens
Committee at Box 77462 San Fran­
cisco, CA 941 (J7 •
Agreement
reached to return
Aristide to Haiti
GOV [A ,D, Y-Aoin-
temationally backed agreement w
rea hed in ew York r ntly, which
would officially return ousted Haitian
President Jean-B rtrand k' tide to
power on 0 tob r . The ccord
w pta! y Ar, tide and Lt. Gen.
Ra ul Ced -the cornmanderof th
military leade wh overthrew Ari .
tide in 1 1.
The Haitian rnilnary had t, .... en un­
dermajor international pr sur tf) al­
low An tide to return and r tore
democracy.
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Ray Jenkin ,a
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activi t, id he
wa given this
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knowing who
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whereto
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The daughter of another neigh­
bor had warned him that the attack
was coming, he aid. Soon after it
occurred, Kiteka filed a complaint
with the Knox County prosecutor
charging next-door. neighbors John
and Sandra Frederick with one rnis­
demeanor count each of contribut­
ing to the delinquency of a minor.
A trial on the 00 mplaint in Knox
Superior Court was postponed from
July 14 to Sept. 15. Sandra
Frederick, reached by telephone at
her home Tuesday evening, referred
call to her attorney, Maurice Doll.
A telephone message left at Doll's
residence w not immediately re­
turned.
VIN EN ,IND. (AP -A col-
lege profes or who endured civil
war in hi homeland of Angola is
determined to prevail over racial
lurs and vandali m he ay neigh­
bors have directedagainst his house
in Vincennes.
Sebastian Kiteka who i Black.
ay he will fight to live wherever
he choo ' . Damage by t nagers to
his house in a white neighborhood
, and racial epithets crawled on hi
driveway will not drive him out, he
aid.
"1 have just much right my
neighbors to live here," aic' Kiteka,
who teachc b Inc omputer
c u at Vincenn University.
A war that tore apart hi African
homeland left him with the resolve
to battle harassment in America.
"I HAV TO FI HT thi be­
cause if I let it go, they will continue
to do it to me or tho e like me," he
aid.
"I want th public to know that
th e thin till go on in America.
There are till people around who
cannot live with other people be-
• cause of their color. ".
Kiteka' house was pelted by
eggs and rocks and racial I urs were
written in oap on hi driveway last
Hallow een. He heard ba: ging
noi from his windows and voic
houting raci t insul .Two outside
ligh were broken.
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