South Africa: Apartheid mass killer who ‘hunted’ black people says police encouraged him | BBC News

A convicted South African murderer who shot dead dozens of black men during apartheid has told the BBC the police sanctioned his violence.

Louis van Schoor says others should share the blame for the killings he carried out as a security guard.

Over a three-year period in the 1980s under the country’s racist apartheid system - which imposed a strict hierarchy that privileged white South Africans - Van Schoor shot and killed at least 39 people.

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