Human rights attorneys have filed a lawsuit in New York alleging that five multinational companies collaborated and acted purposefully with the South African government to commit human rights violations...Other claims allege complicity in extrajudicial killings, torture, de-nationalization, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment during the apartheid regime. The companies named in the suit are Barclays Bank, Ford, General Motors, Daimler, IBM...“The products and expertise of foreign corporations, including [the defendants] were critical to apartheid’s survival.” said Paul Hoffman...one of the lead attorneys for the plaintiffs. “The automobile companies actively supported the apartheid system by providing armored military vehicles used to violently suppress and terrorize the black population.”...“The allegations show that the corporate sector had a hand in the arbitrary detention, exile, torture, forced relocation, revocation of citizenship, and extrajudicial killings that made apartheid one of the most brutal systems in the world,” said Dumisa Ntsebeza, a South African advocate also on this case. “In many instances, these companies replicated apartheid within the company infrastructure, making their internal operations rife with rights abuses.”