Did Peter Hain Eulogise A Terrorist?
PETER HAIN on the Anorak Forums: On July 24, 1964 a time bomb was placed in the Johannesburg railway station and exploded during the evening rush hours. The blast killed one, a woman pensioner, and severely wounded more than twenty others. It later emerged Frederick John Harris, a teacher and member of the African Resistance Movement, was responsible.
He was charged with murder and two counts of sabotage. Harris was convicted and sentenced to death.
He was hanged…and who allegedly read out the eulogy for the terrorist who had hidden behind a pillar to watch the effects of his work?
It was a 16-year-old boy…his name….yup! Peter Hain. He read the piece because his mother and father were both banned persons under that strict Nationalist regime of the day. They left Southern Africa for the UK very shortly after that.
Now IF it was the same Pater Hain I don’t think his part in praising an executed terrorist figures very highly on his CV. It was never mentioned around the time of the London tube incidents either. If it is the same Peter Hain that is.
It is a big if. And this is all alleged…
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June 22nd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
The Peter Hain you refer to and the one we all know so well in the cabinet…was one and the same. I often wonder why he is not back in his beloved S.Africa trying to sort out some of the injustices and violence there, after all, Apartheid has long since been dismantled.
January 25th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Dont ever forget that Jack Straw, who was previously Foreign Secretary, once lead a full physical attack on the sovereign territory of the USA. The embassy at Grosvenor Square, ca 1968. Everyone seems conveniently to forget stuff like that.
For Peter Hain see the link
http://www.francisbennion.com/doc/fb/2002/008/peterhain.htm