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Twenty-four residents are killed in a pre-dawn attack on Crossroads squatter camp.
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266.
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, August 10). Twenty-four residents are killed in a pre-dawn attack on Crossroads squatter camp.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0089742
South African History Online (2012) 'Twenty-four residents are killed in a pre-dawn attack on Crossroads squatter camp.', South African History Online, 10 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0089742 (Accessed: 25 September 2026).
South African History Online, Twenty-four residents are killed in a pre-dawn attack on Crossroads squatter camp. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0089742, (accessed 25 September 2026).
"Twenty-four residents are killed in a pre-dawn attack on Crossroads squatter camp.." South African History Online, 10 Aug. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0089742. Accessed 25 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Twenty-four residents are killed in a pre-dawn attack on Crossroads squatter camp.." South African History Online. August 10, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0089742.
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