Thursday, August 19, 2010

South Africa: Rubber Bullets Wound Striking Workers

A strike for higher wages by more than one million public employees — teachers and health care workers among them — entered its second day on Thursday. At least five strikers were wounded when a police officer fired rubber bullets at a crowd trying to block the exit ramp of a Johannesburg highway, the police said.

Source: New York Times

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