Friday, August 17, 2012

South African police Open fire on Striking Miners


South African police open fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine, killing at least a dozen men in the deadliest episode of a week of union violence. The SAPA domestic news agency says one of its reporters counted 18 bodies after the shooting near a squatter camp close to the mine, which occurred when police laying out barricades of barbed wire were outflanked by some of an estimated 3,000 miners massed on a rocky outcrop near the mine, northwest of Johannesburg. (August 16, 2012). "BUT WHY SHOULD THIS HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE", Is there no more value for human life?

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