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Janusz Walus, Polish immigrant and convicted killer of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani, is sworn in during a Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing in Pretoria, South Africa, on November 24, 1997
JANUSZ WALUS, who murdered anti-apartheid icon Chris Hani in a racially motivated attack in 1993, received a hero’s welcome in his native Poland on Saturday after being deported from South Africa.
Having spent almost 30 years in prison after his death sentence for the Communist Party leader’s murder was commuted, Mr Walus was greeted by several Polish extremists, including one of the leaders of the far-right Confederation alliance, whose international liaison officer recently spoke at the conference of the similarly extreme Homeland Party in Britain.
Mr Walus conspired with South African Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis to assassinate Hani as the ANC was about to come to power under Nelson Mandela, after the overthrow of the racist apartheid regime.
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