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Shoot to Kill?: International Lawyer's Inquiry into the Lethal Use of Firearms by the Security Forces in Northern Ireland..

Kader Asmal

South African politician

Abdul Kader Asmal (8 October &#; 22 June )^[2] was a South Africanpolitician.

He was a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and had two sons.

He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, received a doctorate Honoris Causa from Queen's University Belfast () and was a laureate of the Stockholm Water Prize.

The biography of a politician who played a profound role in the history of the African National Congress, this account follows Kader Asmal from his.

The biography of a politician who played a profound role in the history of the African National Congress, this account follows Kader Asmal from his beginnings.

Shoot to Kill?: International Lawyer's Inquiry into the Lethal Use of Firearms by the Security Forces in Northern Ireland.

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Abdul Kader Asmal was a South African politician.

Early life

Born in , Asmal grew up in Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal. He was the son of an Indian shopkeeper and one of seven children.^[1] When he was a schoolboy, he met Chief Albert Luthuli, who inspired him towards human rights.^[3]

Asmal's political development first began in with the Defiance Campaign, when he was asked to become the secretary of the local rate payers' association.

That exposed him t