Massacre at Lonmin

On a hillside north of J'berg the South African police gunned down 30+ striking mineworkers.  Check out the smoke from the guns and the distance between the police and the dead and dying.  This is just like the old days of Apartheid, except the police are now the same color as the demonstrators.  Black.

Sickens me.  I guess color is just a code for lowest class versus the class above and easy to spot.  Looks kind of like a US Civil War reproduction battle, except this is real and weapons in use are assault rifles in semi or full automatic mode.

We need our metals, that's for sure but I call foul.  Lonmin can apologize all they want but the time has past for these kind of tactics .  Or, putting on my cynic hat, are we looking for more of this in the future?