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Title: Death squad, Transvaal, South Africa, 1985
Subject: Police shootings, Police--Special weapons and tactics units, Death squads, Apartheid, Political history--South Africa, Beyond the Barricades
Description: A Duduza township resident lies dead while members of a special police squad take a smoke break after an all night "clean-up". Photographs such as this led to government emergency regulations making it an offence to photograph police in an "unrest area or situation." Members of death squads usually wore woolen, hooded face covers, or masks, called "balaclavas", making it impossible to identify killers. In this photograph, the man with his back turned still has his balaclava down.
Identifier: islandora:854

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