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Harms Commission
| Date | February 1990 to September 1990 |
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| Duration | Six months |
| Location | Pretoria, South Africa |
| Also known as | Harms Commission |
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The Harms Commission of Inquiry into Certain Alleged Murders, known as the Harms Commission, was established by South African apartheid-era President F.W. de Klerk on 31 January 1990 as a public inquiry to investigate politically motivated assassinations of opponents of the apartheid regime by clandestine death squads within the South African police and the army.[1][2]
Chaired by Judge Louis Harms, the hearings were held at the Dutch Reformed Church office building in downtown Pretoria between February and September 1990. By June 1990, the commission had heard testimonies from 250 witnesses - ordinary people, policemen and members of the South African army's Civil Cooperation Bureau, an undercover military unit accused of murdering political opponents of the apartheid government.[3]
- ^ Human Rights Watch World Report 1990 - South Africa, Refworld.org, 1 January 1991. Retrieved 28 January 2025
- ^ Commission of Inquiry Into Certain Alleged Murders: Report - 201 pages. Author: L. T. C. Harms. South Africa: Government Printer. ISBN 9780621134100
- ^ Witnesses hinder Pretoria inquiry, New York Times, 18 June 1990. Retrieved 28 January 2025
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