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28 Va. J. Int'l L. 873 (1987-1988)
Proposals for a New United States Policy toward South Africa

handle is hein.journals/vajint28 and id is 883 raw text is: Proposals For A New United States Policy Toward South Africa GAY J. MCDOUGALL* History will ultimately judge United States human rights policy only by the degree to which it has practical impact on decreasing human rights abuses around the world. In that regard, United States policy in southern Africa may be the principal test of the effectiveness of that policy. The Reagan Administration policy of constructive engagement has been only the most recent in a long serids of failed United States policies in the southern Africa region. But constructive engage- ment perhaps strayed farthest from the United States commitment to human rights and justice. It undermined our moral standing in the world, threatened our relationships with the other nations of Africa, and jeopardized our future access to a region rich in strategic minerals and economic potential. It has been inimical to our true national and security interests in the region. Rather than contributing to an abatement of human rights abuses, it created a sense of impunity in South Africa's minority government which emboldened it to intensify domestic repression to unprece- dented levels, increase its military raids against its neighboring States, sponsor political assassinations of its opponents at home and abroad, and continue its illegal occupation of Namibia, Africa's last colony. As a new United States Administration is inaugurated and the 101st session of Congress commences, there will be an urgent need for strength, leadership, and partnership to halt a cycle of violence that threatens to engulf the entire region of southern Africa. To meet that * Director, South Africa Project, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The opinions in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the policies or vies of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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