David Lock

South Africa

Select a riot and shoot 30 odd rioters.

Lock up all 200 of the rioters and charge them with murdering their friends ignoring the incidental detail that they were actually shot by the police.

And, as icing on the cake, use a law that was designed for the apartheid era.

Result predicted - mass demonstrations and more death.

Staggering. dl

dpb

Crazy,head start for collapsing the economy as well

speedking

They are reconsidering thank goodness.

tony de wonderful

SA is a mess. They basically swapped one corrupt white elite for a corrupt black one.

As a measure of the cynicism did anyone see the police news conference after the shootings? It was all black police women lol, but the police doing the shooting were a mixture of black and white police men.

Tidgy

add in a splash, actualy a whole load, of miss reporting and false information and there you go.

what you;v siad is so far off whats going on its funny as

David Lock

Listen pal, I do not post bulls,hit so what's so bloody funny?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19438343


dl

Tidgy

the press are so way off with whats going on, thats whats funny. Mate of mine lives out there in the area and was telling us exactly what was going on, while the murder charges for the miners are way off but happening, the events that preceded it are completly off target as far as how the press have reported them.

The police didn't just randomly open fire, the day before two police were murder by the miners, then the next day the ones who got shot charged the police, theres videos on youtube showing when police opend fire and you can see the miners charging at them, they also were found to have machettes and other weapons on them.


Grpahic vids



as the description says, at 1min int he vid some of the weapons are seen being piled up,


15 second in you can see them rushing police.

dpb

Doing Malemas cause no end of good.

But he's right here

David Lock

I am not denying it was a very nasty situation but my post was an exact reflection on what is going on now.

I made no comment about the police action but it's perhaps worth noting that there were not enough police, no riot shields, no water cannons, tear gas?, and they look pretty disorganised and I would guess scared stiff.

But locking up all the rioters and charging them all with murder (even if that decision is rescinded) is asking for trouble, IMHO.

dl
(ex-Resident of SA)

tony de wonderful

Was hosing them down with automatic fire the thing to do though?

dpb

It seems he thinks so, after all just a load of savages in his eye. .

Tidgy

and what point did i say it was acceptable? what i said was the press have been reporting things completley inacuratly as usual, thats whats funny.

Tidgy

and what would you do in there situation, 2 police and 2 security gaurds have already been hacked to death by miners and there charging at you?

very eassy to judge sat behind a computer screen when people arn't charging at you.

stedee

iTrader: (4)

nasty place south africa and alot of **** happens there. life isnt very valuable. did look heavy handed but why would you be stupid enough to charge a group of armed sa police, you know is what going to happen.

Mouser

Don't waste yout time Tidgy.

Your account on #7 is also what I've heard from friends with family at the Cape

Luan Pra bang

South Africa got screwed by the IMF at the rebirth of the country after apartheid, their economy had no chance after the IMF scumbags ripped them apart. As for the police, if you get charged by a violent baying mob you have to open fire or they would have been ripped apart, sad fact of life but what else could they do ?

dpb

Cape residents are a long way from joburg inhabitants surely!

In every sense

Mouser

Those Jungle drums must be really efficient

David Lock

Did those jungle drums mention this, taken from press reports?

"In a separate development, the country's independent police watchdog has refused to comment on reports citing leaked details of post-mortem examinations suggesting miners were shot in the back."

Whilst I understand the police response it does seem a rather inept way of dealing with a riot. Other countries have heavyweight riots which are quelled without resorting to mass shootings.

dl

Mouser

Were they all shot in the back?

David Lock

I have no idea if any were shot in the back let alone all of them. We'll have to wait to find out. Can't rely on rumour. I hope not.

dl