Police Massacre Protesters in Cold Blood 2012
Picture source: http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/news-in-pictures?oid=305947&sn=Detail&pid=146825&Pictures-of-the-Day---16-August-2012
From another author on the same website, Mandy de Waal came this report:
Marikana: What really happened? We may never know and in there you can read how the police destroyed and tampered with evidence.
• “…researchers, activists and rights officials at the scene of Lonmin’s killing fields are accusing the police of tampering with evidence…”
• “…allegations that police at the killing scene destroyed evidence.”
• “There is grass that has been burned and you can see blood which has been burned,” said Peter Alexander, a professor from the University of Johannesburg. “Clearly the police have been removing evidence without there being any independent investigator present.”
• “I think it would also be quite difficult to remove the pools of blood, which show that there was more than one killing site at Marikana.”
• “By Monday, the place had been cleaned so we couldn’t find rubber bullets, canisters, live ammunition shells and that sort of thing. However, you could see where the arc of a water canon had been, because of the dye.”
• “There seems to be evidence of people killed in other places too. I heard also that there were bones at the scene earlier on. But I didn’t see them. It appears that these had been cleaned up.”
• “we heard more than one report of police vehicles driving over bodies or a body. The version we heard, but we don’t have any way to corroborate it, was that some of the bodies can’t be identified because they are so badly destroyed.”
• The miners we spoke to claim that maybe one guy shot at the crowd with rubber bullets, but most of the police shot with live ammunition. They claim that the police then replaced the live round cartridges on the scene with rubber bullets.”
End of quote:
There are still many questions that need to be answered in this saga and a lot of evidence will still be exposed. Watch this space.
• “…researchers, activists and rights officials at the scene of Lonmin’s killing fields are accusing the police of tampering with evidence…”
• “…allegations that police at the killing scene destroyed evidence.”
• “There is grass that has been burned and you can see blood which has been burned,” said Peter Alexander, a professor from the University of Johannesburg. “Clearly the police have been removing evidence without there being any independent investigator present.”
• “I think it would also be quite difficult to remove the pools of blood, which show that there was more than one killing site at Marikana.”
• “By Monday, the place had been cleaned so we couldn’t find rubber bullets, canisters, live ammunition shells and that sort of thing. However, you could see where the arc of a water canon had been, because of the dye.”
• “There seems to be evidence of people killed in other places too. I heard also that there were bones at the scene earlier on. But I didn’t see them. It appears that these had been cleaned up.”
• “we heard more than one report of police vehicles driving over bodies or a body. The version we heard, but we don’t have any way to corroborate it, was that some of the bodies can’t be identified because they are so badly destroyed.”
• The miners we spoke to claim that maybe one guy shot at the crowd with rubber bullets, but most of the police shot with live ammunition. They claim that the police then replaced the live round cartridges on the scene with rubber bullets.”
End of quote:
There are still many questions that need to be answered in this saga and a lot of evidence will still be exposed. Watch this space.
