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Word: rooyen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black marchers provoked the police gunfire. Fouche, however, admitted that the demonstrators had not, as claimed, thrown gasoline bombs at the police, had not surrounded the 19-man unit, and had not been led by a man wielding a brick. Soon afterward, Colonel Adolf Charlton Van Rooyen, chief of the South African riot police, testified that two days before the killings the police had been instructed to "eliminate" marchers throwing gasoline bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Rising Defiance | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Smuts van Rooyen Berrien Springs, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 11, 1980 | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

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