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Special Report Transcript Episode 2, Section 8, Time 14:33

There was this particular police who was always everywhere especially among the blacks. A certain group that would be victorious out of all this groups he would be … this policeman were just shooting at the children and he was accompanied by other police. // Are you saying some of the children were also involved in this fighting? // Yes, the children were helping the people of the community. What I can say to you is I am very happy to be here to be called by the Commission, so that the whole world can see and hear how our children died. I do not think that the children of these policemen could be shot by this police at 15. My son was 15 years. If people throw stones to somebody, those people should just be arrested instead of being shot on the heads and the chest.

Notes: TRC testimony: Sisana Maphalane; Commissioner; Maphalane

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On 15 October 1985, members of the South African Railway Police hid in wooden crates on the back of a railway truck and opened fire on a crowd of protesters in Athlone, Cape Town, killing three youths and injuring several others. The operation was planned and implemented by a sub-structure of the ...
 
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