News Line in the Guardian

Not sure "who is getting shot" and "who is doing the shooting". Maybe I'm not reading it correctly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/30/south-african-miners-charged-murder?newsfeed=true

The police shot the the miners.

The grammar is fine. The logic of the law is what makes the sentence puzzling.

The police shot the colleagues, not the miners. "Who" gets applied to the nearest thing, in this case "colleagues", which happily corresponds to the sense. Miners have been charged, colleagues were shot. The sentence is grammatically unremarkable.

enoonThe police shot the colleagues, not the miners.

Yes, the police shot the "colleagues" referred to in the original quote. But of course, the miners' colleagues were also miners. Up until this particular news report, those who were shot were referred to as miners.

Finally, I get it. The sentence is grammatically correct.

For some time, I was wondering why the miners are being charged with murder if the police did the killing.
I think GrammarGeek explained it best "The logic of the law is puzzling".

Thank you all of you.

Right, it;'s the situation that is puzzling. A bunch of miners went on strike. The police killed 34 of them, and later the surviving miners were charged with murder, on the grounds that if they had not been striking, none of this would have happened.