Amy Biehl

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Amy Biehl (d. August 25, 1993) was an American college student at Stanford University and an Anti-Apartheid activist in South Africa. She studied at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town as part of the Fulbright Program. On August 25, 1993 a Black mob pelted her car with stones and smashed out the windows while shouting racial slurs. She was struck in the head with a brick and then dragged from her vehicle. She was then surrounded by Blacks as she tried to escape and was repeatedly stoned and stabbed to death. Her convicted killers, four black men, were pardoned in 1998 several years after Apartheid ended. Her family supported their release and her father shook their hands and stated, "The most important vehicle of reconciliation is open and honest dialogue...we are here to reconcile a human life which was taken without an opportunity for dialogue. When we are finished with this process we must move forward with linked arms."