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...tried to storm a police station. "It looks like a battlefield," said a police official. At Stellenbosch, roads leading to the nonwhite townships were closed by police. In Kimberley, the diamond-mining city in the center of the country, police clashed with a crowd of 700 students. In Manenburg, mobs stoned police and threatened to attack nearby white areas; the cops responded with rifle and shotgun fire, killing at least 14. All told, more than 325 people have been killed throughout the country since violence broke out at Soweto township near Johannesburg last June 16. Of these...
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