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Special Report Transcript Episode 2, Section 12, Time 42:36

On Sunday July 25 1993 at 7: 30 pm four men stormed into the St James Church in Kenilworth. They fired machine guns and threw hand grenades at the congregation of nearly 1000 people. This was one of a series of similar attacks by APLA in the early nineties. The attack lasted for about 30 seconds and resulted in 11 deaths, and 55 injuries. This week some survivors testified at the Commission.

Notes: St James Church after the attack

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Azanian People's Liberation army, military wing of the PAC, formed in 1967
During the early 1990s, the PAC proclaimed a military strategy of a 'protracted people's war', which involved the infiltration of APLA guerrillas into the country to conduct rural guerrilla warfare. The initial targets of such attacks were members of the security forces and white farmers who were ...
 
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