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| | Black Rage, White Fist -- Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2005 -- Page 1 -- TIME |
 | | The crackdown by the Botha government came after ten months of fl protest against apartheid, the country's rigidly enforced structure of racial separation, and followed earlier, ineffective repressions by the government. |
 | | Almost 500 people, practically all of them fl, died during that extended and bloody period of confrontation, some at the hands of fellow fls, the majority as the result of police action to put down the unrest. |
 | | Not since 1960, when 69 fl protesters were killed by police at Sharpeville, had the government been forced to impose a state of emergency, a fact that caused concern not only in Pretoria, South Africa's capital, but in nations around the world. |
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