“I am not sorry and would do it again if I had to!” – those are chilling words of Polish far-right extremist Janusz Walus, who assassinated leading South African anti-apartheid figure Chris Hani in 1993.
He made the remark during an interview that aired on the South African news channel ENCA on 26 January.
Walus, who was paroled in 2022 after 29 years behind bars for the murder, said k*lling Hani – who was chief of staff at the ANC’s armed wing – was ‘necessary’ and ‘had to be done.’
The assassination happened at a critical time, during delicate negotiations between liberation movements and the apartheid regime.
Walus insists that he acted alone, but some suspect that the k*lling was carried out on behalf of powerful racist forces that wanted to derail the negotiations and ultimately stop the fall of apartheid. There are even rumours that some of Hani’s own comrades had a hand in the assassination.
His 2022 parole opened wounds in South Africa, with Hani’s family saying it made a mockery of the country’s justice system.
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