South Africa: Panel Says Police Lied About Shootings
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Version 0 of 1. South African police officers lied, withheld documents and apparently doctored other papers during a government-appointed investigation of the police killings of 34 striking miners last year, a state commission said Thursday. The commission said it had to search computer hard drives of officers to discover documents about the August 2012 shootings at the Lonmin platinum mine near Marikana. The police version of events of the shootings “is in material respects not the truth,” said the commission after studying the newly obtained documents. The panel adjourned until Wednesday to study the new evidence. |