Dirk Coetzee

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Dirk Coetzee was co-founder and commander of the covert South African Police unit based at Vlakplaas. He and his colleagues were involved in a number of atrocities including the murders of Sizwe Khondile and Griffiths Mxenge. Coetzee lifted the veil on the existence of the unit in a 1989 interview with Vrye Weekblad[1] confirming a story that death-row convict Almond Nofomela told a Johannesburg weekly the previous year[2].

Dirk Coetzee was granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on 4 August 1997.[3]

In 1997 Eugene de Kock, a former commander of Vlakplaas, was convicted for attempting to murder Coetzee[4]

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  1. ^ du Preez. "South Africa's 'own Dr Mengele' General Lothar Neethling dies of lung cancer in Pretoria", June 13, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-05-18. 
  2. ^ "Dirk Coetzee guilty of murder", Mail & Guardian, May 15, 1997. Retrieved on 2007-05-18. 
  3. ^ Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) (August 4, 1997). "Statement From the TRC on Amnesty Granted to Dirk Coetzee". Press release.
  4. ^ AI Report 1997: South Africa. Amnesty International. Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
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