A damning indictment of the collaboration between Lonmin...management, mine security and the police that led to the bloodshed at Marikana lies at the heart of an explosive film that premiered in Cape Town and Prague...Miners Shot Down...[f]ilm maker Rehad Desai was in Marikana filming for two days before August 16, 2012 when 34 striking miners were shot dead and more than 100 wounded. Since then he has interviewed survivors and other participants, including ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa, a Lonmin director...[and] he was able to access police and mine security film and other documentary evidence that has emerged during the still ongoing Farlam commission of inquiry into the tragedy...Film footage reveals that police...effectively “boxed in” the miners and the scene was set for the worst bloodshed since the demise of apartheid...An hour after the shooting...police arrested 270 miners...and, in a bizarre twist, charged them with the murder of their 34 workmates...under the notorious doctrine of common purpose...