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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... by us. During the time we committed these acts we believed it was right. If I look back today I can see it was a waste of time, money and valuable human lives. It served no purpose. Absolutely nothing. We should rather have stayed at home. Things would have gone better. It served no purpose. It ... excessive violence. This is probably more true of the Eastern Cape than anywhere else. It was in the Eastern Cape platteland in Grahamstown that the Human Rights Violations Committee of the Truth Commission heard more than 60 of these stories this week. ... Attacking soft targets or civilians was never ANC policy. Mbeki said the death of civilians could not be seen as a gross human rights violation if they died in the crossfire of a just war. ... would bring about acceptable results for all in the country as it didn’t do. Separate development in the end meant social engineering with brutal human costs and enormous wastage of ... ... // When people look at the work of the Commission they should remember that within a two year period we’ve changed the discourse forever about human rights violations and nobody will deny that they took place. Initially when victims told their stories people were disbelieving. Now that we ... ... the armed struggle, from the point of view of the liberation movements, was morally legitimate, necessary and justified, but we paid a cost in our humanity for doing the things we did and of course where we too from the side of the liberation movements abused human rights, we too have the shame ... ... I go home, the normality of a family life, the fact that I still have to be a mother, a wife, helps me to deal with the fact that I am not a super human being, I’m an ordinary person. But I don’t sleep very well, so I’ll read till the early hours of the morning and I accept that that’s ... interview I did manage to talk to Brian Mitchell and during a conversation that lasted almost an hour I felt that I had glimpsed a sincerely changed human being behind the face of this mass killer, a man who eight years ago had little or no regard for life and for black lives in particular. A ... ... backbone of the National Party their confession before the people of Paarl and Stellenbosch was a meaningful milestone in the Commission’s human rights violations ... On the first day of the Mdansane hearings this past week the Human Rights Violations Committee paid a tribute visit to the Egerton Railway Station, scene of the bloody massacre that took place in 1983 to say a short remembrance prayer for those who untimely lost their lives for supporting a just ... Next week will be the Truth Commission’s busiest week so far. There will be amnesty hearings in Kroonstad, and human rights violations hearings in Queenstown, Pietermaritzburg and Soweto. June 16 1976 will be the theme of a special hearing in Soweto’s Regina Mundi Church on Monday and Tuesday. ... back on those years and the vicious reaction of the state. We take you back further to the 1960s and the 1970s with moving testimonies by victims of human rights violations. We focus on two other horror stories, a necklacing after a consumer boycott and the St James Church Massacre. But we will ... Most of you who have followed this programme since April 1996 will have seen the Truth Commissioner with the greying beard and the sympathetic face. Our Truth Commission profile today is of Dr Fazel Randera, Deputy Chairperson of the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee. ... others that I carry in my heart will be as simply and publicly made by him and others as I have now again myself done. I know that because we are human beings and therefore sinners that we shall still hurt each other even tomorrow. I nevertheless apologise for the past hurts and I do so also on ... ... colleagues should take his advice seriously to cooperate with the Truth Commission. More than one of them have been implicated directly in gross human rights violations and there are only 20 days left before the deadline for applications for amnesty. After 14 December they would be vulnerable ... ... Only these police officers brave the bone chilling cold; they’ve been on duty through the night keeping watch over the town hall where the last Human Rights Violations hearing is to be held. // ‘Botshabelo Location 7:00 am’ // My name is Thamsanqa Mfazwe. I am staying here at Botshabelo C ... Last night’s explosion at Glen Ashley in Durban… // // The Swimmers were also proud of their skill at detonating bombs without loss of human life. In 1987 and 1988 the unit frequently crossed over into Swaziland for extra military training. ... to the effect that anyone who has been convicted of having committed a criminal offence, which amounts to a gross violation of a person’s human rights, should not be regarded as fit to hold public ... ... have been granted and 39 refused. But the process is not only about hearings. Amnesty applications that do not concern the gross violation of human rights can be processed on paper. These include crimes like the illegal possession of firearms or public violence. Often applications also fall ... Two convicted murderers walked free this weekend. They were the first perpetrators of gross human rights violations to be granted amnesty by the Truth Commission. Amnesty is our focus later on in this programme. Tonight we take you to KwaZulu-Natal where the Truth Commission and the Supreme Court ... |
