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UN Chronicle, Feb, 1987

Attempt to destroy PAC office

in Tanzania condemned

The Special Committee against Apartheid on 19 December strongly condemned what it termed a "vicious attempt" to destroy the Headquarters of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) in Tanzania by a parcel bomb. Committee Chairman Joseph N. Garba (Nigeria) said that in the light of previous such attempts, the "criminal act of terrorism" had no doubt been instigated by the "racists in South Africa".

The Committee stated it had learned with shock that a parcel bomb said to contain enough explosives to destroy the PAC office completely had been posted from Manzini in Swaziland to the PAC Administrative Secretary. "Only his vigilance and prompt attentive action by Tanzanian security forces prevented a tragedy", Mr. Garba added.