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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... you know how it feels? Can you imagine how it feels to bury the brain tissue of your own son of eight years old? Can you imagine what it does to a human being? How does one become human again after such an experience? Three days after the explosion my wife died. Jaco did not get better. He died ... Before the break we saw what those who violated human rights stand to gain from the Truth Commission process. But certainly those who survived these violations and the families of those who did not are more important. The new democratic government, actually we as a nation, has a moral ... ... and Rehabilitation Committee says the state has a moral obligation to compensate each and every South African who qualifies as a victim of a gross human rights violation. While human rights violations and amnesty hearings dominated the headlines in the past year and a half the Reparation and ... ... where we had a fascist system in the country, detention without trial, where there was no democracy, when apartheid was regarded as a crime against humanity. It was a time when we youth activists had become radicalised, we had been in and out of detention, assaulted by police, harassed. It’s a ... ... because in Bonteheuwel there was there was a house and a road, there was one little shop, miles you had to walk to the shop. And, for me the human factor of this thing was very important and that is why even in my work I like working with the human … I can relate to that because I do ... ... and Parliament are discussing their final decision on reparations which they are likely to make only after we have closed down. Secondly, the Human Rights Violations Committee of the TRC is making findings on each of the more than 20 000 statements which you have made to us. The Committee ... Let’s turn to something completely different now. The amnesty process is about perpetrators of human rights violations. The other side of the truth and reconciliation process is about their victims. How do we compensate them for their hurts and losses? On a practical level we should look at ... ... incident wouldn’t have happened, I don’t believe, but in their case their command structure was very weak, very loose and they had the normal, human ability to kill. As I had, they had too. // I’ve been thinking all along about their mothers, it must have been very hard have for them their ... ... Especially the victims because we are the source of what they’re going through. I hope that they realize that even myself, personally as a human being that thing affected me. And even right now, I still can’t cope with it, that if God created me to be an angel of death that is ... ... set on a pedestal and beyond criticism. I can quite understand the importance of their independence, but they speak as if they are not first of all human beings, human beings who are formed by the society in which they live. But there are people who came out of homes that regarded black people as ... If prisoners kill each other, stab each other, they’re always on my neck. They’re always fighting and saying we don’t respect the human rights of prisoners. And when we start to restrain and start to develop prisoners so they should stop aggressive behaviour then we don’t respect the human ... We certainly can expect a greater sense of urgency from the Truth Commission from now on. Perpetrators of human rights violations go to the Truth Commission to ask for amnesty, but what is in it for the victims? Everyone appearing at a human rights violations hearing requests something of the ... ... at the end. Occasionally a stiff whiskey at the end of the day helps as well. So there’s a variety of ways, but …Some of the great themes of human existence are caught up in the life and work of the Commission and it’s something that has been with me since I was a young person trying to ... The Truth Commission can, according to the Act of Parliament that governs them, investigate the gross human rights violations perpetrated by Vlakplaas, but there are other apartheid practices that did even more damage to generations of our people that cannot be narrowly defined as individual human ... ... did not speak out enough against racist attitudes amongst our church members; did not speak out enough against impairment of people’s true, human dignity. During the Soweto riots of 1976 and in line countrywide unrest that followed, vague resolutions were passed concerning the state of ... ... If I look back at what happened, at apartheid and so on, then I’m sorry about what happened to your parents and to you because it was a waste of human life. I’m sorry for that. I know that you must hate me. I know if somebody killed my parents maybe I would have been much more hateful than ... ... question has been asked many many times by the Truth Commission the last few months. Did the State Security Council order the gross violations of human rights by policemen and soldiers like assassinations, torture and massacres? And, did they know of these violations committed by the security ... Brian Ngqulunga was a frail, pathetic looking person, human being. He took him, he beat him up and when Brian lost consciousness he picked him up, he threw him up in the sky and when Brian landed with this certain thud, he jumped. You know, if you know De Kock, he’s a big guy with a big torso. He ... ... you with scenes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Doctor Alex Boraine at the Vrouemonument in Bloemfontein this week. Monument to one of the biggest human rights violations in our history, the death of more than 26 000 women and children in British concentration camps. From our team, good night. ... ... to apply for amnesty. The letter was never followed up. Many of the men were Vlakplaas members and several have already been linked to gross human rights violations like Brigadier WAL du Toit, and Major Marthinus Ras, and former Vlakplaas top man, Jack Cronje. The letter stated that the ... |
