Sharpeville massacre survivors start legal fight for justice in South Africa
Image source, Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty imagesImage caption, The photographer Ian Berry later told the BBC that it seemed the man in the centre of this picture was holding his jacket up "as though to protect himself from the bullets"The 1961 Indemnity Act was passed by the apartheid government in the wake of the massacre and protected the police and government from having criminal charges or even civil claims brought against them in relation to what happened at Sharpeville.
At least 69 protesters were shot dead by police on that day in 1960, becoming a pivotal event in the history of the anti-apartheid movement."The massacre at Sharpeville, which he survived, exposed to the world the violence of the racist apartheid system - yet thanks to an indemnity law passed a year after the killings, none of the perpetrators were ever prosecuted.
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