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Decorated apartheid officer accepts responsibility for police death unit
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One of the apartheid government's most decorated police officers
on Monday took responsibility for the actions of a death squad that
hunted down and killed countless opponents of white minority rule
across southern Africa.
Testifying in his amnesty hearing, Eugene de Kock described the
methods and workings of the police department's Vlakplaas
counter-terrorism unit, which he headed from 1985 to 1993. Under
his command, the unit was blamed for killing at least 70 people.
He ...
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; PRETORIA -- One of the apartheid government's most decorated police officers took responsibility yesterday for the actions of a death squad that hunted down and killed countless opponents of white minority rule across southern Africa. Testifying in his amnesty hearing, the former police colonel,
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EX-COP TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR APARTHEID DEATH SQUAD.(News)
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; One of the apartheid government's most decorated police officers took responsibility yesterday for the actions of a death squad that hunted down and killed countless opponents of white minority rule across southern Africa. Testifying in his amnesty hearing, Eugene de Kock described the methods and
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SIDEBAR To executioner, killing was part of war
The Boston Globe
; PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa -- Eugene de Kock was apartheid's chief executioner, licensed to kill as the commander of an elite death squad and terrorist unit based at Vlakplaas, a farm outside Pretoria. Nicknamed "Prime Evil" by compatriots because of his lust for violence, de Kock was once the
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South African Details His Bloody Past; Confessed Assassin Implicates Ex-President
The Washington Post
; His bluish-gray suit is of nondescript cut. His hair swoops to the side, as if to cover a bald spot. His demeanor is awkward. His voice is flat. His thick glasses rest on a deadpan face. Eugene de Kock cuts a figure so unremarkable that he could be any pencil-pushing civil servant in the old South
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South African widows support pardon for the killer of their husbands The police commander nicknamed Prime Evil for his murder missions against blacks has won praise for his honesty, reports Jane Flanagan in Johannesburg
The Sunday Telegraph London
; EUGENE de Kock, one of the most notorious police commanders of South Africa's apartheid regime, has won unexpected support in his appeal for a presidential pardon - from the widows of men killed by the squads he led. De Kock, who revelled in the nickname "Prime Evil", led the notorious Vlakplaas
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