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Eugene de Kock (left), South African apartheid-era assassin, at the Truth And Reconcilation Commission hearing in 1999. He was today granted parole.

South Africa’s apartheid-era death squad commander granted parole

January 30, 2015Justice

Eugene de Kock was sentenced to more than 200 years of jail time for leading a covert death squad in apartheid South Africa. Today he was released on parole in the interests of “national building.”