Umkhonto We Sizwe - Death Toll

Death Toll

Police statistics indicate that, in the period 1976 to 1986, approximately 230 people were killed by terrorists. Of these, about 10% were members of various security forces and two hundred were civilians. Of the civilians, 60 were white and 140 black. One study estimated that 150 cases of armed action took place between 1976 and 1982, "overwhelmingly concentrated on economic targets and less on the administrative machinery of apartheid, the police and SADF installations and personnel". Note that during this time, the ANC took little action to assert policy with regard to the avoidance of civilian targets, which had in some cases become confused with the need to intensify the struggle "at all costs", stating (8 January 1987) that MK: "must continue to distinguish itself from the apartheid forces by the bravery of its combatants, its dedication to the cause of liberation and its effort for civilians, both black and white."

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