Special Report Transcript Episode 70, Section 2, Time 39:55

But the common thread was that everywhere the extent of the horror was more than anyone had ever suspected. Even the smallest village had its casualties. The process was not easy; often the truth was frightening. As the process gained momentum victims sometimes came face to face with perpetrators and the grim reality of what they did. Few remained untouched as the floodgates of emotion were wedged open. // ‘It is 25 years now and yet I will not forget what happened. I ask the Almighty that I will not forget what happened and that I need to know.’ // I remember pain of a scale that I didn’t think a human being could ever experience. I remember going into darkness. // ‘They left 12 month old Phoenix traumatized and alone with her dead mother in their home spattered with blood all over the place. It was disgusting, brutal, deceitful, treacherous, coldblooded murder.’ // ‘Pieces of him and brains, all of it, was scattered around. That was the end of Bheki. // ‘I think it was the seventh day, I was very hungry. I had no food. They left me in that small room, here at … So, I just crawled into the toilet and drink from the toilet sink.’ // It was like I was alive and all these people were dead. I was so disturbed but I would not ever let the warders know … but they did destroy me. // He watched from under the bed as they pumped bullets into his brother and into his wife, bullets penetrating them simultaneously. They turned them over, face upwards. And one asked. ‘Is hulle dood?’ [Are they dead?] ‘Morsdood’ [Stone dead] was the reply. … breaks down as I relate this. Bullets were pumped into Joseph who was hiding in a wall unit. // We looked on the floor and we saw my son lying in one corner. I want to say, listeners that is one thing that has troubled me for the rest of my life, to find my son in that condition, having done nothing. Killed innocently.

Notes: Hawa Timol (Son killed in detention); Michael Lapsley (Letter bomb victim); Patricia Quinn (Sister killed in Lesotho raid); Seipati Mlangeni (Husband killed by parcel bomb); Reuben Maliba (Tortured); Zahrah Narkedien (Detained in solitary confinement); Hilda Pahle (Son killed in Botswana raid); John Diyane Finye (Son killed by vigilantes)

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