S. AFRICAN GOVERNMENT PLANNED TO USE DRUG ON RIOTERS, SAYS
SCIENTIST

A former government scientist told South AfricaB9s truth commission
Tuesday that in the dying days of apartheid the government ordered its
chemists to make one tonne of the mind-altering drug ecstasy for riot
control.

Dr. John Koekemoer, former head of chemical and biological weapons
research, at the secret Delta G facility, said he disapproved, B3I
did not believe ecstasy was a good incapacitant and I told my
superiors that,B2 he told the commission, which is investigating
human rights abuses during the apartheid era.

"Ecstasy enhances interpersonal relationships. I told them I did not
want to kiss my enemy."

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