Marikana cops must be
suspended - Amnesty
2015-08-14 12:17
Mpho Raborife, News24
Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma must
suspend all members of the SA Police Service implicated in the Marikana
shooting immediately, pending further investigations, human rights group
Amnesty International said on Friday.
"With police authorities closing ranks
in the face of strong findings against them in the Farlam Commission report, it
is vital that President Zuma shows strong leadership and takes action against
those right at the top of the police service,” Amnesty's Southern Africa
Director Deprose Muchena said.
Sunday will mark the third year since the
shooting and no members of the police had been suspended or held to account.
This was an unacceptable injustice to the families of the victims, he said.
"President Jacob Zuma must act
now to ensure all of the Farlam Commission report’s key recommendations are
implemented.
"The perpetrators of all the killings
which occurred in that terrible week must be brought to justice."
Thirty-four strikers were shot dead in
Marikana, North West, on August 16, 2012. Ten people, including two policemen
and two Lonmin security guards, were killed in the previous week.
President Jacob Zuma
subsequently appointed retired Judge Ian Farlam to chair
the judicial commission of inquiry into the violence.
The commission's final report was handed to
Zuma on March 31, who released it to the public on June 25.
