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Subject: Killers for Apartheid
From: "Sabelo L Ndabazandile"
Date: 1996/09/26
Message-Id: <01bbabc9$4b01b580$11cd95ce@default>
Organization: Sabsy Ltd
Newsgroups: soc.culture.south-Africa
PRETORIA, South Africa (Reuter) - The former chief of a
covert South African police hit squad said Thursday an apartheid
spy was involved in the 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime
Minister Olof Palme, a staunch apartheid foe.
Eugene de Kock made the allegation while testifying in a
mitigation of sentence hearing before the judge who convicted
him last month of six murders and a series of other crimes.
De Kock, a colonel in the apartheid-era police, told the
judge he had volunteered information to the prosecution.
``Like the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof
Palme,'' he said.
``It was one of Craig Williamson's 'Operation Long Reach'
projects. I wanted it to be investigated before it was covered
up,'' he said.
Williamson was one of the white-minority government's most
effective spies during the 1970s and 1980s and has admitted to
carrying out bombings and other actions against anti-apartheid
activists.
De Kock gave no indication what motive Williamson would have
had for involvement in Palme's murder but the Swedish leader had
close ties to the African National Congress, whose leader Nelson
Mandela won South Africa's first all-race election in 1994.
Williamson could not be reached immediately for comment on
de Kock's statement. Operation Long Reach was a secret program
by the apartheid government to harass or silence its opponents
abroad.
De Kock has previously said during the trial that he and
Williamson collaborated in blowing up the ANC offices in London
while the ANC was still waging its liberation struggle.
Palme's assassination by a gunman in a Stockholm street has
never been solved although a broad range of theories have been
put forward. The murder weapon has never been found.
De Kock told the judge he had every opportunity to escape
from custody after he was first arrested in 1994 but had chosen
to face the charges against him.
``I had copies of the police station cells keys made. I
could have got out at any time of night or day. The choice was
mine,'' he said.
De Kock has applied to the country's Truth and
Reconciliation Commission for amnesty for his crimes. The
commission, set up to heal the wounds of apartheid, has powers
to grant amnesty to perpetrators of human rights abuses who
confess to their deeds.
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