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Special Report Transcript Episode 46, Section 2, Time 01:29‘On 2 December 1988, New Hanover police Captain Brian Mitchell ordered the elimination of a group of UDF members. The operation went wrong. Eleven people attending a night vigil were killed.’ // It was just I think the driving force behind it, behind the motives of the security establishment was to drive the opponents, the UDF, the stronger side out of Trust Feed so that it is left within the hands of say in this case Inkatha, that it becomes a no-go area and they can within themselves exist. Notes: Trust Feed; Scene of incident; TRC testimony: Brian Mitchell 04/08/96 References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims GlossaryThe Trust Feed Massacre In the early hours of 3 December 1988, gunmen opened fire on a house in the Trust Feed community, near New Hanover, killing eleven people and wounding two. In October 1991, seven serving and former members of the SAP stood trial on eleven counts of murder and eight of ... Brian Mitchell and the Trust Feed Community 70 Trust Feed is a rural community situated north-west of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal. It is a freehold area with a hierarchical structure of landowners and tenants. The area has a long history of peaceful co-existence that changed in the ... |