Voices | Police lied about Sharpeville Massacre: White-owned media accepted the SAP figures unquestioningly and have parroted it ever since, but the new research shows at least 80 people were murdered indiscriminately by police weapons, writes David Forbes
thought I was going to die.'It is a sunny, windy highveld day. An unarmed crowd of more than 5 000 people is peacefully singing and chanting outside a police station. They are not violent.
The deafening cacophony of the police fusillade of sub-machine guns, rifles and pistols stops after about 45 seconds. Done over some years by two American history professors, Nancy Clark and William H Worger, and released in 2022, the research went back to primary sources, and proves conclusively a massive police cover-up.Three pregnant mothers lose their unborn children that day, two of them die themselves from police bullets.
The white-owned media accepted the SAP figures unquestioningly, and have parroted it every since, but the new research shows at least 80 people were murdered indiscriminately by police weapons.In 1960, only white policemen had guns. The SAP had four Saracens within the grounds of the police station, and in front of the Saracens were 77 policemen shoulder-to-shoulder, 12 armed with Sten sub-machine guns.
* The police claimed they had used batons and teargas before shooting. Witnesses gave individual testimony that gave the lie to these claims. The campaign was to be run by both the African National Congress and the breakaway Pan Africanist Congress, but the PAC upstaged their rivals by calling it 10 days earlier.
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