Shortly after South African police shot and killed people at the Marikana mine, President Jacob Zuma declared a week of mourning for the victims. But now that week is over, and officials are placing the blame for the deaths on other miners.
According to BBC News, 270 workers will be tried for the murder of their 34 colleagues that police shot dead. However, police officers have not been charged. The strange twist to the case comes after Zuma told workers that he "felt their pain." He had promised that the shootings would be investigated.
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The Lonmin Marikana platinum mine made headlines on August 16, when striking workers confronted police. Police officers said that they had to fire in self-defense, because the protesters were armed with machetes and would not retreat. The mine has also been part of a violent turf war between rival unions, GlobalPost reported.
But the South African Institute of Race Relations said in a statement that the police response was unjustified, and that police kept shooting even after miners retreated.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/south-africa/120830/south-africa-lonmin-miners-blamed-the-deaths-protes
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