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The Sharpeville massacre

1960 CE · South Africa, Africa · Civil Rights

The Sharpeville massacre
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The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, when police opened fire on a crowd of people who had assembled outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa to protest against the apartheid system and its pass laws.

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