The World - News from Dec. 6, 1985
South African police using whips and tear gas broke up candlelight vigils for imprisoned anti-apartheid activists and dispersed thousand of mourners at a black girl’s funeral in Soweto, witnesses said. In Pretoria, a spokesman for the national police said the vigils at a church in Bellville South, led by the Rev. Allan Boesak, were illegal, and police moved in after their warnings were ignored.
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