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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - A former police colonel who confessed to a role in the death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko and was convicted of killing several other opponents of white rule died in prison Friday.
Gideon Nieuwoudt, who was in his mid-50s, had cancer of the lungs which spread to the rest of his body, his lawyer Jan Wagener told the South African Press Association.
Nieuwoudt was convicted of killing three black policemen and their informer in 1989, three anti-apartheid activists in 1985, and numerous other opponents of white racist rule.
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