This article is concerned with the events of 16 August 2012 at the Lonmin Marikana mine in the North West province, when members of the South African Police Service killed 34 people, most of whom were striking mineworkers. These killings, now widely referred to as the Marikana massacre, are regarded not only as a tragedy but also as an event of great significance in South Africa’s contemporary history. A commission of inquiry was held into the killings, but it did not reach any conclusions about what had happened at the second massacre site, commonly referred to as Scene 2, at which 17 of the fatal shootings took place. While these events are now the subject of an investigation by police oversight and criminal justice agencies, we cannot assume that this will reveal the truth about the killings at Scene 2. To add to our understanding of the events at Marikana, this article analyses statements from the injured and arrested strikers taken by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate in the five days immediately after the massacre. This article examines data from the statements, and the circumstances in which these statements were taken, in order to interrogate the assertion that ‘strikers were shot by police while surrendering or injured at Scene 2’.1 It concludes that, taken as a whole, the statements are a reliable source of information that some of the strikers at Scene 2 were indeed shot while surrendering.

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投降时射击：突击队员形容Marikana场景2

本文关注的是2012年8月16日西北省隆敏·马里卡纳（Lonmin Marikana）矿山发生的事件，当时南非警察署人员杀害了34人，其中大多数是袭击矿工的行为。这些杀人事件现在被广泛称为“大麻大屠杀”，不仅被视为悲剧，而且在南非当代历史上具有重大意义。对杀人事件进行了调查，但没有得出关于第二个大屠杀现场发生的事件的任何结论，第二个大屠杀现场通常被称为第二场景，发生了17起致命枪击事件。虽然这些事件现在已由警察监督和刑事司法机构进行调查，但我们不能认为这将揭示有关第二场景中杀戮的真相。为了加深我们对马里卡纳事件的理解，本文分析了独立警察调查局在大屠杀发生后的五天内从受伤和被捕的罢工者那里获得的陈述。本文研究了这些陈述中的数据以及这些陈述所处的环境，以质疑“警察在第2场景投降或受伤时射手被枪击”的说法。1得出的结论是，总体而言，这些陈述是可靠的信息来源，表明场景2中的某些前锋确实在投降时被枪杀。