Dirk Coetzee
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Dirk Coetzee was co-founder and commander of the covert South African Police unit based at Vlakplaas. He and his colleagues were involved in a number of atrocities including the murders of Sizwe Khondile and Griffiths Mxenge. Coetzee lifted the veil on the existence of the unit in a 1989 interview with Vrye Weekblad[1] confirming a story that death-row convict Almond Nofomela told a Johannesburg weekly the previous year.[2]
Dirk Coetzee was granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 4 August 1997.[3]
In 1997 Eugene de Kock, a former commander of Vlakplaas, was convicted for attempting to murder Coetzee[4]
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- ^ du Preez, Max (2005-06-13). "South Africa's 'own Dr Mengele' General Lothar Neethling dies of lung cancer in Pretoria". http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=271&fArticleId=2622765. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
- ^ "Dirk Coetzee guilty of murder". Mail & Guardian. 1997-05-15. Archived from the original on 2010-12-24. http://www.mg.co.za/articledirect.aspx?articleid=213569&area=%2farchives%2farchives__online_edition%2f. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
- ^ "Statement From the TRC on Amnesty Granted to Dirk Coetzee" (Press release). Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa). 1997-08-04. http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/1997/08050w13297.htm. Archived 24 December 2010 at WebCite
- ^ "AI Report 1997: South Africa". Amnesty International. http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar97/AFR53.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
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