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Unrest Investigation Unit

Explanation
During 1986 special police units were established to investigate incidents of violent protest activities. One of the Cape Town units gave specific attention to the ongoing protest activity in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. The unit was responsible for extensive torture of members of the Bonteheuwel Military Wing (BMW), whom it suspected of being responsible for attacks on policemen and for other incidents in the area.

A UDF supporter and member of the BMW who was detained, interrogated, severely beaten and held in solitary confinement in Cape Town in October 1987 by members of a special police unit called the Unrest Investigation Unit (UIU).
A BMW member who was detained and tortured by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit in October 1987.
A member of the BMW who was detained in 1987 in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, and severely tortured at the Bishop Lavis police station by named and other members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit. He later served over two and a half years of a five year prison term.
A student activist and member of the BMW who was detained in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, in July 1987, and was severely beaten by named and other members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit.
A UDF supporter and BMW member who was detained and tortured by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit in the Brackenfell police station, Cape Town, on 2 October 1987.
... and was assaulted and tort u red at the Brackenfell, Bishop Lavis and Macassar police stations in Cape Town by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit. Mr Williams was acquitted of the charges against him. He was later severely assaulted by other BMW members after police ...
... and held for six weeks. He was again arrested on 6 January 1988. In both instances he was severely assaulted by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit at the Brackenfell and Bishop Lavis police stations, Cape ...
Was detained on 2 October 1987 and held for three months, during which time he was severely tortured at the Brackenfell police station and Pollsmoor prison, Cape Town, by named members of the special police Unrest Investigation Unit.
supporter and member of the BMW who was detained and severely beaten and suffocated while under interrogation by named members of the special police Unrest Investigation Unit, at the Bishop Lavis police station, Cape Town, on 19 June 1987. He was later detained a second time and again severely ...
A member of the BMW who was detained for seventeen days in October 1987 in Pollsmoor prison, Cape Town. During his detention he was interrogated, severely beaten and sexually assaulted by members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit.
A member of the BMW who was arrested in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, in 1988, and tortured by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit.
A UDF supporter and member of the BMW, was detained for three weeks in Pollsmoor prison, Cape Town. While under interrogation, he was beaten by a named member of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit. Numerous public violence charges against the perpetrator were later withdrawn.
A UDF supporter and BMW member who was detained in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, on 2 October 1987, and severely beaten by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit at the Brackenfell police station.
A BMW member who was arrested in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, on 2 October 1987, and repeatedly tortured by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit.
A UDF supporter and member of the BMW who was detained in 1986 and again in July 1987 when he was held for nine months and severely tortured by named members of a special police Unrest Investigation Unit.
 
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