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DE NYSCHEN, Marie

Age 2

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Was killed when the vehicle in which she and her family and friends were travelling detonated a landmine on a game farm near Messina, Transvaal, on 15 December 1985. Four children and two women were killed, and five people injured, in what was part of an ANC landmine campaign aimed at military patrols in the rural border regions. Three MK operatives were granted amnesty (AC/2001/093). See ANC landmine campaign.

... chose its victims at random. // ‘Ses mense is dood en vyf ernstig beseer in nog ‘n landmyn ontploffing in Noord Transvaal. Die minister van verdediging general Magnus Malan het die gebied vandag besoek. [Six people died and five were injured in another landmine explosion in the northern ...
 
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