/ 11 October 2000

FAECES ATTACK: POLICE HUNT COMMANDOS

POLICE are continuing their search for a group of Northern Province army commando members who allegedly forced a teenager they suspected of housebreaking, to eat his own faeces. The group are said to be known to the police, and is believed to include a senior policeman. Police said they allegedly apprehended the youth, 17, while he was hitching a lift on a roadside on the outskirts of Mahwelereng township, outside Potgietersrus. After being taken to a farm, he was allegedly assaulted until he defecated in his pants. He was then forced to take off his clothes and eat his own faeces. Faeces was also smeared on the youth’s face and in his hair. – Own Correspondent