UNMASKING A GUILTY PAST

THE KILLERS OF ANTIAPARTHEID HERO STEVE BIKO FINALLY CONFESS BEFORE SOUTH AFRICA'S TRUTH COMMISSION

The memories are not eroded by the years--they just burn brighter in the mind of Peter Cecil Jones, who saw Steve Biko led to his death. He remembers the summer night in August 1977 and the roadblock on the highway in the eastern Cape, 80 miles from Port Elizabeth. He hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons at police headquarters in...

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