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|policerank = Warrant Officer |deployment = South-West Africa Rhodesia }} Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (31 January 1941〔Terre'Blanche's year of birth is alternately given as 1941 or 1944. The majority of sources indicates 1941; sources that claim 1944 as his year of birth include (''The Star'' ), (The Nelson Mandela Foundation ) and the (website of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging )〕 – 3 April 2010) was a South African politician who was the founder and leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).〔 Prior to the AWB, Terre'Blanche served as a South African Police officer, was a farmer, and represented the Herstigte Nasionale Party in the Eastern Transvaal. He was a major figure in a right-wing backlash during the collapse of apartheid,〔(Eugene Terre'Blanche )〕 and his beliefs and philosophy have continued to be influential among white nationalists in South Africa.〔(When patriotism meets conservatism )〕 Under Terre'Blanche, the AWB swore to use violence to preserve minority rule, opposing any concessions offered to the African National Congress – an organisation AWB supporters repeatedly branded as Marxist terrorists〔 – and gaining notoriety for storming the Kempton Park Trade Centre during bilateral negotiations in 1993. AWB loyalists also clashed with South African security forces at the Battle of Ventersdorp, a bloody 1991 skirmish in which police opened fire on a white crowd for the first time since the Rand Rebellion, leaving three Afrikaners dead. Immediately prior to South Africa's first multiracial elections, Terre'Blanche's followers were linked to a number of bombings and assassinations targeting the South African Communist Party; armed AWB commandos even participated in Bophuthatswana's abortive 1994 coup d'état.〔 Terre'Blanche spent three years in a Rooigrond prison for assaulting a petrol station attendant and for the attempted murder of a black security guard around 1996.〔(Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche )〕 He was released in June 2004.〔 On April 3, 2010, the controversial AWB leader was hacked and beaten to death on his Ventersdorp farm, allegedly by two of his employees. Conservative Afrikaners have suggested that the killing was part of a larger pattern of farm invasions in South Africa.〔("Farm Murder, Anti-Apartheid Song Stoke Racial Tensions in South Africa" ), ''Voice of America''〕 ==Background== Terre'Blanche's grandfather fought as a so-called "Cape Rebel" for the Boer cause in the Second Boer War, and his father was a lieutenant colonel in the South African Defence Force.〔 The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name (translatable as either 'white land' or 'white earth' in French) in the region was a French Huguenot refugee, Estienne Terreblanche from Toulon (Provence), who arrived at the Cape in 1704, fleeing anti-Protestant persecution in France.〔 〕 The Terreblanche name has generally retained its original spelling though other spellings include Terre'Blanche, Terre Blanche, Terblanche and Terblans. Born on a farm in the Transvaal town of Ventersdorp on 31 January 1941,〔 〕 Terre'Blanche attended Laerskool Ventersdorp and Hoër Volkskool in Potchefstroom, matriculating in 1962. While in school, he gave early expression to his political leanings by founding the cultural organisation ''Jong Afrikanerharte'' (Young Afrikaner Hearts).〔Russell, Alec: ''Big men, little people: the leaders who defined Africa''. McMillan, 1999〕 He joined the South African Police, and was initially deployed in South West Africa (now Namibia),〔 which had been given to South Africa under a League of Nations Trust mandate after World War I. Upon returning to South Africa proper, he became a Warrant Officer in the Special Guard Unit, which was assigned to members of the Cabinet.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eugène Terre'Blanche」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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