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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Michael Segalov

‘You can’t fight your way to peace’: from a 20-year-old Israeli to a 99-year-old Briton, eight conscientious objectors on why they refused to serve in the army

Conscientious objector Peter Hathorn in Cape Town, South Africa, sitting in front of a white sheet hanging on a frame
Peter Hathorn: ‘Failure to comply came with a prison sentence.’ Photograph: Alice Mann/The Guardian

‘The apartheid society I lived in was offensive to the core of my being’


Peter Hathorn,
63, Cape Town, South Africa

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