Special Report Transcript Episode 8, Section 5, Time 24:29

A few years ago it was still unthinkable that the force could have been involved in this. When former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee, spoke in November 1989, they said he was mad. But then came the Eugene de Kock case and an orgy of death and destruction committed by him and his men unfolded in public. // The men say in their letter: In the total struggle that emerged in this country over decades, the SA Police became involved in what was for all practical purposes a war that secluded them from normal police work and functions.

Notes: Johan Coetzee; Newspaper headline: ‘The death squad confessions’ Letter to Bishop Tutu, extract

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