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Transcripts for Section 3 of Episode 71
| Time | Summary | | | 21:17 | If you put a gun to somebody’s head and they repent you have two problems. The first is you have no way of knowing if this is true and I would rather have somebody who does not repent and says so than somebody who lies saying they repent in order to gain amnesty. Because then you bring deceptions into it from the very start. It’s very very dangerous. | Full Transcript | | 21:45 | But then there are those who feel the need to ask for forgiveness for those they have wronged. // Forgiveness does not come cheaply; it’s something that comes deeply from the heart. And I can just ask the people that were involved directly or indirectly and who have been affected by this case to consider forgiving me. | Full Transcript and References | | 22:15 | But after all this the question remains, is it fair to let perpetrators get away with their crimes. Shouldn’t they be punished? And does the amnesty process do enough? | Full Transcript | | 22:29 | Enough for whom? And what is enough? Would enough be that if you murdered somebody I would be satisfied if you were executed? Is that enough? Would it be enough that you are incarcerated for 10, 15, 20, 30 years? Enough? What do you mean enough? An eye for an eye? Is that what would satisfy? I don’t know. The thing is I certainly know of a few for whom to have come clean has cost them their marriages. Now is that enough? And some maybe, maybe not I don’t know; the anguish of it. Do we know? I mean have we got a calculus to compute? Does the remorse that they get, them not being able to sleep, is that enough? Enough for whom? Enough what? You see I would say that people don’t go off scot free, because what we have come to seem to accept is that the judicial system we’re talking about is not retributive justice, it is restorative justice. We are trying to see how are you going to be able to do something that will redress the balance that is going to advance healing. Not just for ...more | Full Transcript | | 24:53 | The Truth Commission has made it clear that it will never consider blanket amnesty for political crimes, but in the seven months that now remain for the Commission to finish its work the Amnesty Committee will have to process more than 1600 applications in hearings alone. From January the Committee is to be enlarged to six panels that will sit at the same time. But given its record up to now this maybe too little too late. Amnesty hearings in the year 2000 may not be such a far fetched idea. It’s time now to pour a quick cup of tea, but make sure to come back quickly. After the break we look at the other side of the Truth Commission process and ask, what is in it for the victims? And we tell you a fascinating spy story. | Full Transcript | | 25:38 | ‘After the break // Reparation & Rehabilitation: What do we owe the victims? // Roland Hunter: The switchboard operator who became a spy.’ | Full Transcript |
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