The killing of 34 striking miners in Marikana was the worst incident of police violence in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994.<br /><br />Though the miners were armed with clubs and machetes, and Al Jazeera cameras captured at least one firing a gun, the police response has been criticised as excessive, and the resulting investigation as potentially flawed.<br /><br />For the parents of one young man killed by police who thought he was hiding a gun, the Marikana incident reflects procedure that has become too standard.<br /><br />Haru Mutasa reports from Johannesburg.
