Obituary: Dennis Brutus, Supporter of Reparations to Armenians
By Henry Theriault
Armenian Weekly
January 7, 2010
Dennis Brutus was a world-renowned human rights activist who had a
major role in the struggle against Apartheid in his native South
Africa and later in various struggles for life and justice around the
globe. He passed away on Dec. 26, 2009, in Cape Town.
Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)
He was instrumental in organizing the 1999 protests of the WTO in
Seattle, a major figure in the World Social Forum seeking an
alternative global political and economic order, and a leader of the
emerging global reparations movement for apartheid, slavery, mass
rape, genocide, corporate abuse, and environmental damage.
He was the co-chair of the committee that organized the 2005 Global
Reparations Symposium at Worcester State College, which featured
discussions of reparations for South African Apartheid, US Slavery and
Jim Crow, the Comfort Women System by Japan, Native American genocides
and dispossessions, and the Armenian Genocide.
He became a supporter of the Armenian right to reparation and invited
panelists to submit their symposium papers for a forthcoming issue of
the Armenian Review on reparations.