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Spartacus R.
editor of Global Africa Pocket News and author of "Violation" and "The Maat Mystery" takes another look at the world.

Why were Albert Ofusu and 7 other African (Black) men murdered on a Ukrainian ship bound for France and their bodies dumped overboard? Why did Wayne Douglas and over 42 other Africans, (including Joy Gardner in July 1993), die in the hands of the police in the past 5 years? Why have the murderers of Stephen Lawrence, whose identities are known by the police, not been brought to trial?

The answer to all these questions was summed up by one of the European (White) men convicted of murdering the 8 African men, when he said "Europe will thank us for what we did." In the light of increasingly hostile, anti-African and anti-Asian immigration laws throughout Fortress Europe, unapologetic Afri-phobic statements from senior government ministers and leading executives in the police and other major institutions and systematic genocidal attacks on a global level, he is right. Not only are the killers generally rewarded with impunity, promotion and celebrity, they are often shown how swiftly the state can act when an African or Asian person is accused of killing one of them.

On 13th December 1995, Brixton was set ablaze after a community demonstration at the police station protesting, according to eyewitnesses, the horrendous murder by beating of Wayne Douglas, a young African man in the prime of his life, a week earlier by a gang of about 15 Brixton police officers. Predictably, the official police report stated that Mr. Douglas was a criminal assaulting them, who just died of a heart attack. But how many of us being beaten to death would not have heart failure?

Wayne's death, so soon after his cousin Brian Douglas, who also died at the hands of police, brings the number of African people dying in police custody to an unacceptable level, without a single officer being convicted of murder. The killing will only get worse when (not if) they give guns to regular officers in areas like Brixton, using the "Yardie" and "outside agitator" movies as the excuse.

Chants of "A life for a life" from the Brixton crowd may sound "irresponsible" to some commentators but if we examine history, we find that it is not such a radical nor new concept. It is an idea which has been around at least since biblical times. Again and again it has been used with effective results all over Africa from the Mau Mau in Kenya to the freedom fighters and revolutionaries of Azania, Algeria and Zimbabwe. Our African Ancestors used it successfully in the Americas to stop us being lynched for just looking. Africans again took the concept one step further in the late 1950s when our parents and grandparents from the Caribbean took out their cutlasses and did some chopping in Notting Hill to the slogan "two for one". The killing of Africans in the street soon stopped.

The idea was revived in 1988 when a 12 inch 45 record entitled "2-4-1" was released. The record said: "Two ah dem for one ah we, 2-4-1 ... One dead African, Two dead Beast Man, No more dead African". If such sentiments were to be seriously considered, at least 86 police officers could have died in the past 5 years.

The law should apply equally to all citizens of any country. If it is not against the law for a man to be shot dead in a police station or for a woman to be beaten, bound, gagged and choked to death with adhesive tape in police custody or for men to be beaten to death with truncheons or for a person walking home to be stabbed to death, it should also be OK if those responsible met with the same fate. And those criminals who are ultimately responsible for giving the blind eye and the green light, such as the contraceptive pig [Condom] and the lunatic-at-home ?secretary, would also fear for their own lives.

When I hear statements such as: "We need the police. What would we do without the police?" I think of societies where everybody owns everything and there is no need for police to protect private property from the likes of you and me. And if you believe the lie that more African police would make things better, please, take another look at Africa, the Caribbean and the USA.

No, history tells us, the solution to the problem of genocide is not surrender but strategic self-defence and attack. We must act with the knowledge that the oppressor is still smaller in numbers than the oppressed and we, Global Africa, have the power to do as we will because we are the real power. All we have to do is make use of that power.