South African police mass murder miners

[jmdrake]

I saw this in another thread, but I thought it deserved it's own thread.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm1GSrcilDs

So if we're going to overthrow Assad for killing his own people.......?

Oh, and check this out. The ones who weren't killed are being charged under an apartheid era law for the deaths of those that were.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/south-african-miners-charged-murder-34-colleagues-shot-police-article-1.1148452

And how about this?

Opening fire on the protesters was a matter of self-defense, police have said. The miners, part of a union fringe, reportedly charged police at the mine with a ragtag collection of clubs and spears.

But journalists and other witnesses have questioned the motives of police killings, and South African president Jacob Zuma has promised that a commission will investigate each of the 34 deaths.


Looking at the above video do you see any clubs or spears?

[Demigod]

They killed 2 policeman by burning them alive in a car and another 2 miners who did not want to protest and decided to go to work were hanged outside the mines.

on they day of the shooting after the police tear gassed them they decided to charge trough the gas with machetes and spears and got massacred.

The ones that survived are going to be tried for killing the 4 man and attacking the police officers.

[Icymudpuppy]

Union Thuggery. Socialism at its best. You will be part of the collective, or else.

[oyarde]

South Afrika .... what do you expect ..

[fisharmor]

Yeah, and the 270 other miners that they took into custody after killing those 34? They're the ones being charged with murder of the miners the cops killed, under an apartheid-era law.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/31/south-african-miners-charged-murder
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/31/south-african-miners-charged-murder)
So, about that moral high ground the cops are supposedly on... um.... yeah.

[puppetmaster]

They are creating jobs

[Indy Vidual]

Thank God we live in a free country with nice policemen.

[youngbuck]

There was a thread on this when it first happened. The cops were indeed approached with spears, machetes, etc. In a nutshell, the miners brought a knife to a gunfight.