South Africa mine shooting highlights police abuse
The killing of 34 striking miners in Marikana was the worst incident of
police violence in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994. Though
the miners were armed with clubs and machetes, and Al Jazeera cameras
captured at least one firing a gun, the police response has been
criticised as excessive, and the resulting investigation as potentially
flawed. For the parents of one young man killed by police who
thought he was hiding a gun, the Marikana incident reflects procedure
that has become too standard. Haru Mutasa reports from Johannesburg.
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