TWO German companies, carmaker Daimler AG and defence group Rheinmetall AG, cannot be held responsible for atrocities committed by the apartheid government in South Africa, a US judge ruled Thursday.
New York District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin said the companies could not be sued for compensation under a US law, called the Alien Tort Statute, which dates from 1789.
Victims of racial segregation and violence in South Africa claimed the two companies had supported the apartheid regime because of business dealings with the government there in the 1970s and 1980s, including the sale of cars and munitions.
"We hope that this decision will finally bring to an end more than 10 years of legal dispute," a spokesman for Daimler said.
The judge did not dismiss similar claims made against the US companies Ford Motor Corp and IBM Corp.
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