SA Police vd striking miners:3 minutes of mayhem *GRAPHIC NSFW*
Uneasy calm at Marikana mine
2012-08-16 19:00An uneasy calm has returned to Lonmin's troubled Marikana mine in the North West after a shooting that left at least 18 people dead or wounded.
Last edited by hood; 08-16-2012 at 07:21 PM. Reason: removed graphic picture
Were the miners trying to rush the police? It kind of looked like it.
Amongst the people killed earlier(rival unions,mine security),two cops were killed earlier(last w/end) and weapons taken.This has been coming for over a week and elsewhere someone said that it sounded like shots being fired at police and hence the response.Originally Posted by Token White Guy
http://www.iol.co.za/business/compan...hots-1.1364192
August 16 2012 at 07:01pm
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Striking Lonmin miners gather on a hill near the Marikana mine during a protest action this week. Picture:Booysen Thamaga/SAPA.
It was not immediately clear who fired the first shots in a shoot-out on Thursday between police and strikers at Lonmin's mine in Marikana in the North West.
The shooting erupted when police sought to disperse armed, striking workers who had gathered on a hill, in the area that had already seen 10 deaths in violent protests the past week.
After a call for the miners to disarm themselves, the group - singing and hitting their spears against pangas - starting moving down the hill to a nearby informal settlement.
The police tried to intercept them using water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades.
The workers started running in different directions, some heading for the open veld and others toward the informal settlement.
A Sapa reporter on the scene said gunshots could be heard from the police, which lasted for three minutes.
Police on the scene said workers shot at them first before they opened fire. The shooting left at least 18 people dead or wounded. They were seen lying on the ground.
Police were not immediately available to comment on the number of dead and wounded in Thursday's shooting.
An uneasy calm returned to the Marikana mine area on Thursday evening as paramedics attended to those who were hit.
Policemen involved in the shooting were returning to their bases as two helicopters circled the area around the hill where the strikers had gathered.
Those who already died in violent protests at the mine included two security guards and two police officers. - Sapa
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That's some surreal footage, camera guy is so close it's as if they were filming a movie scene... Crazy ****.
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I guess it says something if the police feels it needs to employ its premier unit,the special task force,seen here with a .50 Browning equiped vehicle.
That's not a .50 cal . . its a GA1 20mm auto canon with an all-HE belt!
I guess it says something if the police feels it needs to employ its premier unit,the special task force,seen here with a .50 Browning equiped vehicle.
****,you're right,I picked it up when I looked at an enlarged copy of the pic,my apologies!
*Bit of a political hot potato,employing(erm...,sorry deploying) cannon against civilians surely? *
"When the Police tried to lay the barbed wire around the hill where the miners where encamped. the Police were shot at with the R5 and pistol taken from the 2 policeman killed earlier in the week. Listen to the shots fired before the main shooting. A TF sniper eliminated the shooters. One policeman was attacked and badly injured with machetes. Confirmed a few minutes ago."
From somebody on f/book,no official news source to confirm as yet.
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