There were, according to this document, supposedly two motives for the assassination: 1. To neutralize Sweden’s support for the fight against South Africa in the 1980s. Olof Palme was the dominant statesman behind the support of the anti-apartheid regime. He loudly censured South Africa in Sweden, in the UN, and in other international arenas. He had to go, just like the new generation of black leaders in South Africa who were being methodically imprisoned, tortured, and murdered during the hard years at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. 2. Another, more private, motive. There
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