South Africa Dropping Murder Charges Against Miners

South Africa's top prosecutor has announced that murder charges will be dropped against miners that had been striking.

Two hundred and seventy miners had been charged with the murder of thirty-four of their number, after police fired into their rioting mass.

The decision had been ridiculed by civil rights groups and governments from around the world.

Charges of attempted murder would also be dropped, but the charges of public violence and others will stay.

Thousands of miners are still striking, demanding that the government double their wages.

Miners who weren't striking, as well as police, had been killed by the strikers before the mass shooting, which police say was in self defense.