Special Report Transcript Episode 72, Section 4, Time 37:47

Our criminal law system paid scant regard to what happened to victims. Victims came to court as witnesses and complainants. After giving their evidence they were thanked for having given their evidence and told to go. But crime was essentially regarded as a crime against the state, and quite correctly it is a crime against the state, but the wrong to the individual – to the victim – has been solely neglected in our history.

Notes: Dullah Omar (Minister of Justice)

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