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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of apartheid.

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apartheid +‎ -like

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  • You will get further if you don't claim Israel is the only apartheidlike state, which tells certain races and peoples to live or at what standard of living in society they should enjoy.

    Israel's Wanton Aggression On Gaza 2008

  • The difference is that, for our -- the entire colonial period, a very strict concept of Tutsis as a superior race and Hutus as an inferior race, this elite minority of Tutsis who lorded it over them -- the rest and who essentially harnessed their labor and exploited them as a monarchist class, they became privileged and an almost apartheidlike system was imposed by the Belgians, with identity cards defining your ethnicity.

    We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda 1998

  • We remain residentially divided today because of the legacy of those apartheidlike policies, as well as ongoing race-based housing discrimination: between 2 million and 3.7 million incidents per year according to private estimates.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

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