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2002 Soweto bombings : ウィキペディア英語版 | 2002 Soweto bombings
The 2002 Soweto Bombings were a string of terrorist attacks that occurred in Soweto in South Africa's Gauteng province. Eight blasts took place on 30 October 2002, leaving one woman dead and her husband severely injured. One of the blasts severely damaged a mosque, while others targeted railways and petrol stations in the area. Police prevented one blast. Another bomb later detonated outside the Nan Hua Buddhist temple in Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria. A white supremacist group, the Warriors of the Boer Nation, claimed responsibility for these explosions in a message sent to an Afrikaans newspaper.〔(Right-wing group claims Soweto blasts BBC News )〕 Two subsequent explosions on 28 November 2002 damaged a bridge in the area, and another damaged a police helicopter in a small airport.〔(Blast on South African bridge BBC News )〕 In all, at least ten, and possibly twelve, individual bombings made up the 2002 Soweto Bombings attack. == Background == Since the end of the apartheid system in 1994, many white South Africans —Afrikaners in particular —felt alienated by black rule and the government of the African National Congress (or ANC). They feared the concurrent violence against whites in Zimbabwe would spill across the border into South Africa. In particular, there were concerns about the rising wave of crime across the country. In the month leading up to the bombings, sixteen members of the Boeremag (a militant far-right organization) had been put on trial for plotting to overthrow the government. This group, and others like it, had been formed in response to the ANC rebellion in the early 1990s —and the resulting violence, described by the then ruling National Party government as terrorism.〔The ANC had often carried out attacks on South African military and government targets.〕 South Africa has had a history of such events. The AWB were responsible for several assassinations and attacks during the late 1980s and early 1990s, before its leader, Eugene Terre'Blanche, was imprisoned. In 1996, bombs had targeted a Western Cape shopping center, killing four Cape Coloured shoppers, and injuring sixty others.〔(RISE OF THE BOEREMAG: A CASE STUDY ).〕
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