Special Report Transcript Episode 48, Section 3, Time 19:56

‘Booby-trapped Hand grenades.’ // Senior members of the South African Police implicating also senior SADF officers have applied for amnesty for a number of murders committed by SAP operatives when they supplied faulty hand grenades to COSAS members in the course of 1985. At least eight persons were killed and seven maimed. This operation was authorised and approved by the former Commissioner of Police and the Minister. // Whoever authorized that was guilty of a very gruesome and totally unacceptable decision. It was wrong, it wasn’t part of the policy and whoever authorized it was mala fide and was acting against the interests of South Africa. Can I say however that I don’t know whether this allegation that a minister ordered it was tested? We are dealing here once again with allegations made by people in amnesty applications who are trying to pass the buck.

Notes: Glen Goosen (Dir: TRC Investigations); FW de Klerk

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