On the night of February 28th, 1986, an assassin shot and killed Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. The murder went unsolved for 34 years. Last month, Swedish police announced they believed the Prime Minister was the victim of a lone gunman, and officially closed the case. But is that the whole story? What can Olof Palme's battle against Apartheid in South Africa tell us about who had him killed?
SOURCES:
Blood On the Snow, by Jan Bondesson: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801479366/blood-on-the-snow/#bookTabs=1
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Special Report series, especially episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnY5SQYAro
and episode 28: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCrNQaabtlM
Peter Caselton interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmcui1mr9M
NEWS SOURCES
Eugene de Kock at Stockholm airport: https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-witness/20150413/281590944088399
Accusations from Coetzee & others: https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19961018&slug=2354793
Coetzee obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/africa/dirk-coetzee-dies-at-67-led-apartheid-era-killings.html
de Kock trial: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/27/world/south-african-links-top-spy-to-the-slaying-of-olof-palme.html
Sweden aid to ANC: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/10/19/swedens-secret-anc-aid-made-enemies-in-pretoria/78985bc3-9f82-4560-9356-29332e74f3a2/
Abramoff & Red Scorpion: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/meet-conservatives-who-campaigned-apartheid-south-africa/
