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11 Nov 2014

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SAPA (South African Press Association)

Lawyer: Marikana strikers posed no threat to police

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Strikers never posed a threat to the police tactical response team (TRT) on 16 August, when 34 miners were killed at Marikana in 2012, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard in Pretoria on Tuesday. "The killings were a result of police using completely disproportionate force on 16 August," said Dumisa Ntsebeza, for the families of the miners killed in the 2012 strike...A separate matter that Ntsebeza could not accept was how injured miners were treated after the shooting had stopped, as he asserted police did little, if anything, to help those they had wounded..."What we see there is this callousness, this absolute disregard for people who have been injured...That [Marikana] was not a war zone, but even in a war zone the Geneva Convention makes provisions for the treatment of those who get injured."

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