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“…the ones who actually did it, and this is hard to believe what happened to them.
They wrecked the police car, the police car came, they smashed it to bits, beat up
the police, when the other police came, one policeman said he drew his gun that
was going to fire on the crowd. People were covered in my brother’s blood. They
were arrested and they were let out because there was no evidence. Nobody was
ever charged. … it was more or less forgotten about. An uncle of mine, who was…
he’s over forensics in [country], he lifted the files and said ‘it’s impossible that
nobody was ever charged with murder, never charged with assault, never mind
nothing’.” (Interviewee P)
“It was… every time you went to a graveyard to bury one of your mates or one of
your relations, there’s a small part of you that goes into that grave, you are never
the same person after that. I think that’s where we’ve had chunks taken out of us.
We still haven’t got justice. My brother was shot in [name of town]. Nobody was
prosecuted for it.” (Interviewee I)
“There is one thing that… would be a big burden off my shoulders. It is to see the
ones that murdered my husband in a courthouse, and be punished for what they
did. … They chose to go out and murder my husband, and they should be made pay
for their crime. It’s not fair on me that they can walk about ten foot high,
laughing, and I have suffered over them. … They chose to murder him and they
should be made… I don’t… I’d probably never see them before, I’d love to see them
before a court. It would be a big, big help to me. In fact, I would be in the court
to face them.” (Interviewee C)
“I still hold the same core convictions that I had thirty years ago, and am still
pursuing justice for [name]’s murder. I don’t see that stopping. Erm…whether it
comes or not.” (Interviewee S)