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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 181 to 200 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 6 •7 •8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 Next Page•Last PageThese were all human rights violations stories we’ve listened to so far. That is what the Truth Commission has been concentrating on in its first six months. The Truth Commission has now entered a new phase, a phase where the perpetrators rather than the victims will get prominence. If one looks ... turning a blind eye to police brutality and torture. This past week the Truth Commission had a special hearing in Cape Town highlighting some of the human rights violations committed in South Africa’s medical profession in the ... ... means. The Truth Commission then asked him. How does one achieve power constitutionally if one does not have a vote and is denied basic human rights? This is De Klerk’s response. ”The answer is that, in the end, all of the people were empowered and enfranchised through ... To the human rights violations hearings in the Free State town of Parys now. We have listened to many painful stories the last year, but what really stood out at the Parys hearings were the bizarre and inhumane methods of torture used by the police and the comrades during the 1980s and 1990s. ... Again, paying different salaries determined by race to people doing the same job was blatantly discriminatory and was an obvious violation of our human ... Building a new moral order is not easy; the first step in this direction was the adoption of a new constitution and a bill of human rights. Yet, we are still a long way from reaching our goals. No, I’m not sorry for what I did. Like I said in the past, I’m sorry for the people, for the waste of human life. Because say for instance we killed another 2000, there was no difference in the outcome of this whole political incident. The Truth Commission’s Committee on Human Rights Violations also had hearings in the Boland this week. It was mostly the tale of two towns, Worcester and Ashton, a tale of conflict, division and terror. Harris Sibeko is our guide. ... were in flames. Umlazi was no exception. Here, on the night of 8 August in the Umlazi Cinema a memorial service was held for Victoria Mxenge. A human rights lawyer and community leader, she was loved and respected until she was shot and hacked to death by four unknown men outside her house a ... ... let me ask you the first question. We’ve had a lot of policemen in front of the Amnesty Committee, we’ve heard a lot of evidence in the human rights violations hearings about the police and security police, where is the military in all this? Why haven’t we made a breakthrough into ... ... it seems. Then they must tell us what their position is. They are not the ones who have to make decisions about whether this or that is a gross human rights violation. We have been set up to do that. We have been set up to be the ones who determine whether a particular act or mission falls ... ... there had never been a clear instruction by the previous government or the State Security Council that any unlawful deed, which was a violation of human rights had to be ... Benzien still serving as a captain in our police service? In next Sunday’s Special Report we bring you a full account of this week’s hearings on human rights violations in our prisons the last few decades and a profile on a veteran of struggle that many of our young people do not know about, ... To me it feels as if the world has just closed their doors for me, because I’ve got nowhere now. // No self-respecting human being can feel happy for killing even one person. Now if you talk about 30 you will know how I feel. It’s terrible, it’s a sadistic act, it’s something that one ... But finally and perhaps most importantly there is the question of whether the C Max concept is in line with the rights of prisoners as set out in the constitution. The constitution states that conditions of detention should be consistent with human dignity. ... was one of the black security policemen who lived and died in the dirty sinister world of Vlakplaas. He was part of the team that brutally murdered human rights lawyer, Griffiths Mxenge, in 1981. By 1987 Ngqulunga was about to crack. He’d become too much of a threat to the Vlakplaas death ... reality of life in KwaZulu-Natal in the last decade has left many thousands dead. In areas like the south coast around Port Shepstone the concept of human rights has become as strange as killing has become familiar. People there are tired of the conflict. Yet when the Truth Commission visited Port ... ... take part in the Truth Commission process. That is why we did not hear the voice of a single IFP victim of the bitter conflict in Bruntville at the human rights violations this ... ... their fate consists of Judge Mall, Judge Wilson, Judge Mwepe, Attorney Sisi Khampepe and Advocate Chris de Jager. The five policemen say all the human rights violations they’re guilty of were committed with a political motive and with the express or implied authority of the then South ... ... nothing! You don’t see it. That’s what I therefore think, that evil has a tendency of not only taking away from you the feeling that you’re human but it blinds your eyes, you can’t see. It blinds your ears, you can’t hear people ... |
