Ex-Officer Testifies About Biko’s Death
From Times Wire Reports
Black activist Steve Biko was acting “stubborn and too big for his boots” by defying police interrogators who killed him 20 years ago, an ex-officer said. The “state order” in the 1970s was for blacks to obey whites, Harold Snyman told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Snyman and the four officers he commanded are seeking amnesty from the commission--set up to investigate apartheid-era political crimes--for the beating death of Biko.
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