Significant2012

Marikana Massacre

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Marikana · North West

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Police killing of 34 striking platinum miners, the deadliest state violence in democratic South Africa.

Belligerents1

South Africa

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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