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blacks were killed.

heels of the Angola. The West Africa African attack.

On 16 June the riot police annonced that reporters and photographers were being banned from the black townships. The excuse given was that the presence of cameras 'provoked' the blacks in these areas, and that reporters deliberately started riots.

The real reason for the banning of reporters was clearly shown by the events of 17 June - the riot police were sent back to the townships with orders to kill. Up to 60 blacks were shot dead and more than 200 wounded. The next day an unknown number of The killings in the townships followed hard on the latest South Arican incursion into raid was aimed at refugees from Namibia and guerilla fighters of SWAPO, the South People's Organisation, which is spearheading the freedom struggle of the Namibian people. Hundreds of people were killed in the South