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Transcripts for Section 5 of Episode 8
| Time | Summary | | | 22:25 | Now, let’s get to the letter the lawyer of 22 former security policemen sent to Bishop Desmond Tutu. // Khotso House, 1988. For many years acts of violence like this was blamed on the ANC. // ‘Die ANC is ‘n barbaarse organisasie van moordenaars wat nie omgee vir die vernietiging van menselewens nie.’ [The ANC is a barbaric organisation that does not care for the destruction of human life.] | Full Transcript | | 22:47 | But this week for the first time, Adriaan Vlok and the top commander of the police force admitted our men may have murdered, killed, tortured and bombed in the line of duty. // This highly confidential letter was delivered to the Truth Commission this week. // 22 former and serving policemen want to ask amnesty for acts of terror in which at least 43 people died. They’re supported by three former police commissioners, four other generals, and Adriaan Vlok himself. These are the 22 policemen. Many were members of the Vlakplaas counter-insurgency unit. Some have already been implicated in murder. Others like Brigadier WAL du Toit and Major Marthinus Ras were convicted of murder and sentenced to long term jail sentences this week. The men’s ranks range from ordinary policemen to colonels and brigadiers. They are supported by former police commissioners, Johan Coetzee, Johan van der Merwe, and Mike Geldenhuys. Two of the other generals, Krappies Engelbrecht and Johan le Roux have ...more | Full Transcript and References | | 24:29 | A few years ago it was still unthinkable that the force could have been involved in this. When former Vlakplaas commander Dirk Coetzee, spoke in November 1989, they said he was mad. But then came the Eugene de Kock case and an orgy of death and destruction committed by him and his men unfolded in public. // The men say in their letter: In the total struggle that emerged in this country over decades, the SA Police became involved in what was for all practical purposes a war that secluded them from normal police work and functions. | Full Transcript |
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