Special Report Transcript Episode 46, Section 6, Time 23:54

We have asked the Minister of Justice and he has agreed to our request that the Amnesty Committee should be enlarged. This is in order to ensure that all the applications are dealt with by our Committee. We hope that it will be able to have finished its work at best at end of this year. It just might be necessary for them to continue into the first part of next year before we present our report in March. As far as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is concerned blanket amnesty is out. It would make nonsense of all the work that we have done hitherto, to say because we are unable to deal with the applications let us now grant blanket amnesty. It will be very difficult to justify to the victims. It is already difficult now, but full disclosure at least is something. People who didn’t know that their loved ones were murdered secretly and buried secretly now know. We would not have known this had there been blanket amnesty.

Notes: Archbishop Tutu

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