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Eugene de Kock
South African police colonel and head of C10 (born )
Eugene Alexander de Kock (born 29 January ) is a former South African Police colonel, torturer, and assassin, active beneath the apartheid government. Nicknamed "Prime Evil"[1][2][3] by the press, dem Kock was the commanding officer of C10, a counterinsurgency enhet of the SAP that kidnapped, tortured, and murdered numerous accused terrorists from the s to the early s. C10's victims included members of the African National Congress.
Following South Africa's transition to democracy in , dem Kock disclosed the full scope of C10's crimes and acknowledged the loss the families suffered of the victims he was instructed to murder, while testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In , he was tried and convicted on eighty-nine charges and sentenced to two concurrent life terms plus &#;years in prison.[4] Since beginning his sentence, De Kock has accused several members of the apartheid government, including former State President F. W. de Klerk, of permitting C10's activities. In , he was granted parole.
Early life and service
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From the Monitor archives: Sentencing of a notorious apartheid assassin
This article originally appeared in the Sept. 30, , edition of The Christian Science Monitor right before Eugene De Kock, head of a deadly apartheid state covert unit, was sentenced to two life terms and an additional years in prison. The South African government granted him parole Friday after 20 years.
Trial Tests South Africa's Will to Forgive
JOHANNESBURG – Churchill Mxenge can’t forget the night of Nov. 19, , when assassins from a police hit squad stabbed his brother, Griffiths Mxenge, a prominent civil-rights lawyer, and dumped his body in a sports field.
Mr. Mxenge says one of the men who is guilty of his brother’s murder is Eugene de Kock, one of the apartheid state’s most infamous assassins, who in hearings at South Africa’s Supreme Court has given a blow-by-blow account of his role in the deaths of scores of apartheid foes.
During his month trial, Mr. De Kock, who headed the notorious Vlakplaas police unit that trained death squads like the one that killed Griffiths Mxenge, has insisted he acted on orders of the formerly white-run regime.
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“I WAS in the heart of the whore.”
With these words, uttered in November , Dirk Coetzee exposed the most malignant cancer in apartheid — the headquarters of the police’s death squad on a farm outside Pretoria.
His list of participants in the murderous activities contained the names of three generals, brigadiers and a colonel by the name of Eugene de Kock.
No one believed Coetzee. Everyone said he was mad. He was suffering from diabetes, had had too much to drink and was embittered because he had been kicked out of the police force a few years earlier.
Never before in South African history had anyone ever pleaded so hard and for so long that people should believe him that he was a mass murderer.
“I was the commander of the police’s death squad at Vlakplaas. We shot, burned, abducted and tortured activists.”
A judge later listening to Coetzee shook his head and snapped at him that he was “talking crap”.
It was unthinkable that the police could have committed such atrocities and that an open-faced Afrikaner man could be capable of such things.
Coetzee, the son of a postmaster, was born in the Northern Cape town of War