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Barnard - regarded as one of apartheid's most brutal killers - told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that he obtained brassknuckles for the assault, when Ahtisaari was head of the UN mission in South West Africa (now Namibia) in the late 1980s.
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"I thought of taking a baseball bat but there was too much traffic in the hotel foyer," he said, adding that he then asked for brassknuckles because "they are very effective."
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Lipstick. lace.brassknuckles - Can you even imagine what would happen if it was me behind the counter?
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