The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on March 21st.
On that day in 1960, police shot and killed 69 people (including eight women and ten children) and injured 180 at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa. More than 80% of those killed had been shot in the back.
7,000 individuals had gathered to rally against apartheid and its "pass laws," which required all Africans to carry a Pass Book, enabling the South African government to restrict and monitor their whereabouts. Anyone found without a passbook could be arrested and detained for up to thirty days.
The Sharpeville Massacre led the General Assembly of the United Nations to proclaim March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and call on the international community to redouble its efforts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.
http://racerelations.about.com/od/reachingbeyondtolerance/a/IDERD.htm
This article is about Eliminating Racial Discrimination. It's explain us things that go on in Africa and all the people that has been killed for the fact of racist discrimination and having hate on each other. Discrimination is not the the way to solve prombles. Thats why there so much Innocent people that die for things that don't make sense or things that go on that are not the way to solve it. Racist discrimination has been a overall discussion because its a mental thing and theres still racism up to this day. They don't know how to take racial things out of people head, because people kill for hate and that's not the way to keep living in fear.
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