Boipatong massacre

The Boipatong massacre took place on 1992-06-17 in Boipatong, South Africa when Inkatha Freedom Party members killed 46 people.cite book
last=Mandela
first=Nelson
coauthors=
editor=
others=Paul Duncan (abridgement and picture editing)
title=The illustrated long walk to freedom
year=1996
publisher=Little, Brown and Company
location=Boston
isbn=0316880205
pages=pp. 191-192, 193
chapter=11 Freedom
quote=On the night of 17 June 1992, a heavily armed force of Inkatha members secretly raided the Vaal township of Boipatong and killed forty-six people. [...] On the morning of 7 September 1992, seventy thousand protesters set out on a march to Bisho's main staduim. The poorly trained homeland troops opened fire on the marchers and killed twenty-nine people, wounding over two hundred [...] the tragedy of Bisho led to a new opening in the negotiations [...] to find common ground and avoid another tragedy like Bisho.] The attackers were mainly-Zulu dwellers from the KwaMadala Hostel for migrant workers.Fact|date=August 2008

The massacre caused the African National Congress to walk out of the negotiations to end apartheid, accusing the ruling National Party of complicity in the attacks.cite web
url=http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/1992/pr0618.html
title=Boipatong Massacre
date=1992-06-18
accessdate=2007-04-28
publisher=ANC] . Subsequent judicial inquiries found no evidence of National Party or police involvement in the massacre cite web
url=http://www.sairr.org.za/wsc/pstory.php?storyID=119
title=Boipatong: South Africas Founding Myth] . However, talks resumed following the Bisho massacre on 1992-09-07, to avoid more massacres.

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