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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
There corrected it for you.
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In most people's opinion. It's why he won the nobel peace prize, is admired around the world, and will have a massive state funeral later this month. It's credited it him by De Klerk who was the head of the Government at the time.
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Nothing justifies terrorism and the slaughter of innocents. The ANC may have been banned in SA but were fully active in the surrounding states training up terrorists. Successful change comes from getting the rest of the nations to turn up pressure on regimes to change. Violence just makes the rogue governments retrench even more firmly. Syria is a fine example in todays world of what armed opposition results in.
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The rest of the world wasn't coming to help. People were being killed and their protests were getting banned and you condemn them for fighting back, you accuse Mandela, whose turn to violence didn't go as far as to call for civilians targets, of being a terrorist. How could they ratchet up pressure when they were a banned group? How they could fight back if they are not allowed to use violence? What were the black population of South Africa to do when their protests were met with violence, they weren't allowed to vote or speak out?
Yet somehow it is they who are the bad guy....