Lothar Neethling

Male, Deceased Person

1935 – 2005

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Who was Lothar Neethling?

General Lothar Paul Neethling was chief deputy commissioner of the South African Police in the apartheid era.

A highly qualified scientist, General Neethling was alleged to have used police forensic laboratories for the production of poisons to kill anti-apartheid activists, and to have developed chemical and biological weapons for use against the black population in South Africa.

He died of lung cancer in Pretoria, aged 69.

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Born
Aug 29, 1935
Died
Jul 11, 2005

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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