South African Miners Refuse to Back Down After 'Massacre'

August 18, 2012 from Al Jazeera English

Striking mine workers have rallied in South Africa, where police shot and killed 34 of their colleagues three days ago. Officers say they acted in self defense. But others say it was a massacre of the kind not seen since the end of Apartheid - and want President Jacob Zuma to resign. Al Jazeera'a Erica Wood reports.

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