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BIEHL, AmyAge 26 Description and with the Committee more importantly and with South Africa, because it’s for South Africa to decide to forgive its own, not for Peter and Linda Biehl. You know we’re not God, we don’t go around granting forgiveness and I think our forgiveness if you will is a very personal and a very ... This episode focuses on the murder of American exchange student, Amy Biehl by PASO (Pan Africanist Student Organisation) members and the APLA attack on the St James Church in Cape Town. Perpetrators appeared before the Amnesty Committee in Cape Town this week (7 to 11 July). The segment includes ... PASO members’ amnesty application for the killing of Amy Biehl ... war must and do take responsibility for. Even if war itself was forced upon us by the aggressor, the upholders of white domination. On the Amy Biehl issue, we wish to state that PASO was not a part of APLA. They are a component part of the PAC not involved in armed struggle. This act ... Like a pack of sharks who smelled blood, this is how a Truth Commission lawyer has described killers of American student Amy Biehl. Biehl was attacked and killed by members of the Pan Africanist Student Organisation in Gugulethu near Cape Town in August 1993. This week her murderers asked for ... settler one bullet.’ Those who attacked the St. James Church did so because it was located in a white area, Kenilworth. The three applying for Amy Biehl’s murder similarly said that she was an immediate target because she was a white person. These young men and their lawyers attempted to ... ... what might happen in two of the difficult amnesty applications the Committee must still decide on: the killers of Chris Hani and the killers of Amy Biehl. Janusz Walus is the man who killed Chris Hani; he acted on instruction of Conservative Party MP, Clive Derby-Lewis. Both are in prison and ... ... leaders; emotions run high. After the meeting a large crowd ends up in the nearby township of Gugulethu. Meanwhile American Fulbright student, Amy Biehl who worked as a researcher at the University of the Western Cape is driving through Gugulethu giving three black colleagues a lift home. Then ... ... by white people. And it’s only by targeting white people that they were going to get their land back. What on earth could the murder of Amy Biehl achieve in getting you your land back and you heard those questions being put repeatedly by Mr. Brink and by other Committee members. You can ... When we left Peter and Linda Biehl at Gugulethu we came to the site where their daughter had been attacked. Only these dried out flowers serve as a reminder of Amy Biehl’s brutal killing here at NY1, Gugulethu four years ago, an act which the Amnesty Committee now has to decide was either a ... ... of terror and white people the victims. The 1993 slaughter of Christian worshippers at the St James Church and the killing of American student Amy Biehl. We let the killers and the survivors and family of the victims speak on tonight’s Special Report and we ask the question, can racism be a ... You see, what I’m going to suggest to you Mr. Nofemela that the attack and brutal murder of Amy Biehl could not have been done with a political objective. It was wanton brutality, like a pack of sharks smelling blood. Isn’t that the truth? // No, that’s not true, we are not such things. observation that we make. I think here the specific examples that you want to concentrate upon Mr. Chairman is incidents of St James’s and the Amy Biehl ones. // The question, which was a simple one, remains unanswered. Was the leadership of the PAC aware of what took place in the incidents that ... ... week we will relive more atrocities when the Amnesty Committee listens to the events around the brutal murder of the American exchange student, Amy Biehl and the APLA attack on the St James Church in Cape Town. But we will not honour the victims of our past if we allow the evil to depress us so ... Truth and Reconciliation process. // We unabashedly support the process which we recognize to be unprecedented in contemporary human history. // The Biehl’s who say they are committed to continuing Amy’s work for women’s rights in South Africa spend most of Friday with the Mosaic Women’s ... |
