WORLD : Suspect Held in Activist Deaths
A former police detective has been arrested in the assassinations of two prominent white activists, one in South Africa and one in Namibia, police said today.
Police refused to identify the suspect, saying they confirmed the arrest only after newspapers reported it. An official statement said further arrests in the two assassinations are possible.
The 31-year-old suspect, a white former narcotics investigator, was arrested earlier this month in connection with the killings of David Webster, a university lecturer and human rights activist in Johannesburg, and Anton Lubowski, a lawyer who was the only senior white official of Namibia’s main independence movement, the South-West Africa People’s Organization. Both men were shot to death outside their homes--Webster on May 1 in Johannesburg, and Lubowski on Sept. 12 in Windhoek, Namibia.
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