TESSA DOOMS | Indirect impact of injustice haunts victims of inner-city fire

Arrests and threats mount as survivors restart their lives

It was Dr Martin Luther King Jr who first said that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”.

King, talking during the civil rights uprising in 1963 in the US, as they fought for the human and civil rights of black communities, exhorted not only the government of the day but also the white compatriots to guard justice jealously, even when injustice does not directly affect them.“.....

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