Sunday, March 21, 2010

South Africa's Sharpeville recalls 1960 massacre


Scene of the massacre in the South African township of Sharpeville on March 21st 1960. The police opened fired on a demonstration against apartheid laws, killing 69 people, and wounding 180.
Sixty-nine black South Africans were killed in the Sharpeville massacre in 1960

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