This week's article relates to a miners strike that occurred back in august and ended in the death of miners, police officers and security guards. As the case is being heard in court, new evidence is arising that may prove that police officials tampered with the photos by placing weapons near dead bodies of miners. A few videos also show officers laughing and joking over the dead bodies of miners. The sad part here is the fact that people are dying and there is no justice to either side of these killings. The miners should not have been violent with police and vice versa. It is also very sickening to see photos of these miners, with potentially no weapons, hand cuffed and dead. It is truly a tragedy and I hope the people responsible for the tampering are prosecuted. There are always two sides to a story...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/world/africa/scene-of-south-african-marikana-mine-shooting-may-have-been-altered-inquiry-is-told.html?ref=africa
i cant believe they are finding more and more evidence. why would they be showing videos of officers laughing these videos shouldnt be viewed by the public. it is giving us a bad taste of who these people are.
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad, people lost their lives to fight for their livelihood only to be mocked. And the fact that they are finding more evidence tampering than evidence to put those to justice is so wrong. I do hope that one day the people who were wronged are brought to justice through this suit.
ReplyDeleteViolence is becoming such a regular pattern around the world - it's sad that it's becoming less and less surprising to see such reactions in law enforcement these days. I hope justice finds these men in handcuffs.
ReplyDeleteThis is such an tragic story and I hope that the families of those lost love ones can find justice real soon.
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