270 striking mine workers are being charged with murder after police shot dead 34 of their colleagues.<br /><br />They are being tried under South Africa's "common purpose" legislation because they were all in the crowd that confronted police two weeks ago at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana.<br /><br />Families of the accused protested at the proceedings as they were led away in prison vans. <br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
