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USA. – Three thousand white crosses have been erected on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. as part of Lex Libertas's White Cross Project, an international campaign aimed at drawing attention to farm attacks and farm murders in South Africa. The crosses, bearing the names of victims, form the centrepiece of the project's vigil taking place today, 26 September, in the American capital.
According to Lex Libertas, the White Cross Project was organised jointly with the New York Young Republican Club and forms part of a larger campaign that also includes a conference, a documentary film and a petition campaign. The organisation published a preliminary list of 2,203 names in August that were identified by its research committee and verified according to the organisation, while the final project contains 3,000 crosses. The organisation's campaign focuses on farm attacks and rural safety, political incitement of violence, race-based legislation and property rights. Lex Libertas says it wants to use the campaign to garner international support for, among other things, peaceful decentralisation and self-governance in South Africa.
The project also included a conference on 25 September at the National Press Club in Washington, where discussions were held on farm attacks, rural safety, property rights and constitutional solutions. Victims of farm attacks and family members of victims participated in the programme. The documentary Crossed Out: Confronting Persecution in South Africa also forms part of the campaign.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
