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In recognition of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960. The day of the massacre has been commemorated as Human Rights Day in South Africa since 1994.
The Sharpeville massacre occurred on 21 March 1960, when police opened fire on a crowd of people who had assembled outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South Africa to protest against the apartheid system and its pass laws.
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