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Title
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Mother holding bloodstained shirt, Tembisa township, Transvaal, 1985
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Subject
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Police shootings, Political violence, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
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Description
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A mother holds up the bloodstained shirt of her son, shot in the back by police. According to government statistics, 381 people were killed in "unrest" incidents between September 1984 and April 1985. The government's own statistics acknowledged that three quarters of these victims died as a direct result of police action.
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Identifier
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islandora:874
