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Special Report Transcript Episode 56, Section 2, Time 01:57St. James today looks like any other church in the suburbs. Inside its quiet, sun slanting down onto pews, hymn books neatly arranged for the next service. On Sundays more than a thousand people file into its vast interior, but on a stormy Sunday’s night in July four years ago, shortly after the first hymn had been sung, gunmen burst into a side entrance and attacked the congregation with grenades and automatic guns. The scene then was horribly different. Notes: St. James Church References select each tab to search for references Hearing Transcripts TRC Final Report TRC Victims GlossaryAzanian People's Liberation army, military wing of the PAC, formed in 1967 During the early 1990s, the PAC proclaimed a military strategy of a 'protracted people's war', which involved the infiltration of APLA guerrillas into the country to conduct rural guerrilla warfare. The initial targets of such attacks were members of the security forces and white farmers who were ... |