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TIL of Wouter Basson, aka 'Dr Death', former head of the South Africa Secret Services’ biological and chemical program ‘Project Coast’ from 1981 to 1995, that introduced drugs into SA to chemically suppress the black population. Charged but acquitted of human rights violations, including murder.

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