March 21, 2019 - 9:59am • New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador | Human rights
On March 21, 1960, sixty-nine people were killed and 180 were wounded after police opened fire at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid “pass laws.” A few years later in 1966, March 21st was proclaimed the “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination” by the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN).