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What happened at Sharpeville in 1960 (Nelson Mandela)

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The Sharpeville Massacre. 
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Massacre in Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, South Africa, Afrikaner police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 people and wounding 180 in a hail of submachine-gun fire.
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