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Detailed explanation-1: -Nelson Mandela and other ANC members also burned their passes in solidarity. Shortly afterwards, on March 30, approximately 30, 000 protesters marched to Cape Town to protest the shootings. The international response to the massacre was swift and unanimous. Many countries around the world condemned the atrocity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sharpeville massacre, (March 21, 1960), incident in the Black township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, South Africa, in which police fired on a crowd of Black people, killing or wounding some 250 of them. It was one of the first and most violent demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa.

Detailed explanation-3: -After demonstrating against pass laws, a crowd of about 7, 000 protesters went to the police station. Sources disagree as to the behaviour of the crowd: some state that the crowd was peaceful, while others state that the crowd had been hurling stones at the police and that the mood had turned “ugly".

Detailed explanation-4: -Oxford University Press, USA, 2011, 256 pp. On March 21, 1960, police in Sharpeville, South Africa, shot hundreds of people protesting laws that restricted the movement of blacks. Sixty-nine protesters died, and the massacre became an iconic moment in the struggle against apartheid.