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Special Report Transcript Episode 10, Section 3, Time 13:29But Vryburg hasn’t forgotten the torture. Nor the place called ”die lang boom,” a favourite place of torture. // They tortured me to an extent that I couldn’t scream. I decided to keep quiet because I realised that they were getting excited when I screamed. Later on I asked them, or I told them that ‘you’re just wasting your time, you’d better kill me.’ And they promised me, ‘you are going to die.’ // And they took me again to the Ganesa road, next to ”lang boom,” where they handcuffed me and they put electric shocks on my private parts and on my behind and then they pressed the machine. They said, ‘if you are not telling the truth today you are going to die.’ Notes: TRC testimony: Collen Colane; TRC testimony: Andries Koto A UDF supporter who was shot and injured by members of the SAP in Vryburg, Cape, on 27 November 1985. After his release from hospital he was assaulted by a named policeman at the Vryburg police station. On 15 February 1986 he was taken to a rural area known as Die Lang Boom where he was severely ... Colane, a member of the Huhudi Youth Organisation, was arrested in July 1986, assaulted by named policemen and placed in solitary confinement. He was taken to a known torture site known as Die Lang Boom where he was severely tortured. |
