Another interesting aspect of the film "Cry Freedom" was the long list of activists who died in prison during Apartheid. The whole list seemed very far fetched and fabricated. I mean even one suicide in prison is very questionable, especially if the prisoner has a history protesting against the government. But there were about several dozen accounts of apparent suicide which is one of the highest suicide rates in prisons for most countries.
Another sketchy detail about this list was the way the prisoners died. Most of the deaths, actually all of them seemed way to suspicious. Almost half the deaths were unexplained and left that way. Others were very far fetched. The one that stuck out to me the most was where the police said that someone died falling on a chair. That is just ridiculous. Others said a prisoner fell down seven flights of stairs or falling down the stairs. I think that the officers involved and their employers should have definitely been held responsible for what happened and that there were not enough repercussions.
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