{"id":16442,"date":"2012-11-06T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/photos-suggest-s-african-police-planted-weapons-on-dead-miners\/"},"modified":"2012-11-06T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T18:37:12","slug":"photos-suggest-s-african-police-planted-weapons-on-dead-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/photos-suggest-s-african-police-planted-weapons-on-dead-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos suggest S.African police planted weapons on dead miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Photos show weapons appearing beside bodies<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Victims&#8217; lawyer suggests there was bid to thwart justice<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Evidence raises questions about police conduct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* 34 miners killed by police in echo of apartheid violence<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Nov 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Photographs suggesting that<br \/>\nSouth African police planted weapons on the bodies of workers<br \/>\nshot dead by police at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana platinum mine have been<br \/>\nshown to an inquiry into the bloodiest security incident since<br \/>\napartheid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In police photographs taken shortly after the killings on<br \/>\nAug. 16, at least two dead workers are seen without weapons by<br \/>\ntheir sides. In photos taken later in the day, weapons including<br \/>\nspears and a machete are on the ground near the corpses.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photographs, presented by the police as evidence to a<br \/>\ngovernment inquiry this week, were seen by Reuters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>George Bizos, a respected attorney who once served as Nelson<br \/>\nMandela&#8217;s lawyer and is now representing families of the<br \/>\nvictims, told the commission there was a &#8220;prima facie case that<br \/>\nthere was a deliberate attempt to defeat the ends of justice&#8221;.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Photos show weapons appearing beside bodies * Victims&#8217; lawyer suggests there was bid to thwart justice * Evidence raises questions about police conduct * 34 miners killed by police in echo of apartheid violence By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Nov 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Photographs suggesting that South African police planted weapons on the bodies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-16442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}