| Subject Index | Crisis |
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| Subject Index | Crossroad |
| Author | Lawyers Committee for Human Rights |
| Publisher | Lawyers Committee for Human Rights |
| Date of publication | 1988 |
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| ISBN | 82-7743-002-7 |
| Number of pages | 103 |
| Language | English |
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In mid 1986, a tragedy of extraordinary dimensions unfolded in South Africa when four squatter communities near crosroads in Cap Province were deliberately burned to the ground by a combined force of vigilantes and South African security forces. Fifty three people were killed, scores injured and 70000 left homeless in the most brutal forced removal in south Africa's history
