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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 221 to 240 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 8 •9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 Next Page•Last Pagethe Truth Commission be able to cope with what will be demanding of it in ’97? // We are supposed to give as complete a picture as possible of the human rights violations and I think we’ll be able to do that. But it seems to me we are going to be snowed under, we are being already, in the ... ... of unhappy and frustrated guerrillas and the rough treatment of everybody vaguely suspected of being an informer combined into the ANC’s biggest human rights disaster. It was worst at the Morris Seabelo rehabilitation centre, also known as Camp 32, or Quatro, 200 kilometres north of the ... ... He survived Bantu education, student politics during the seventies and eighties as well as torture. This week he told his story to the TRC’s Human Rights Violations Committee, but he’d like to see the Truth Commission do more than simply record the experiences of black ... ... over 2500 people had been hanged in this country. The Truth Commission now has to investigate whether or not the death penalty constituted a gross human rights ... … // Then if we take what you say further all the politicians should have applied for amnesty in these cases where killings were a result or gross human rights violations were a result of these kinds of actions? // I listened to what my former colleague, Pik Botha said here this morning. ... ... they’ll go through the wall if necessary in order to realize their plans, their schemes. Secondly they propounded, I think a policy that was ... ... all the circumstances that the assault was an act associated with a political motive. Before we go a last, very important matter. Victims of gross human rights violations in the period covered by the Truth Commission are entitled to reparation, but they will only qualify if they complete the ... ... we’d like to support any form of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee because till today inside the prison walls there are gross violations of human rights taking place. I can just think about doctors covering up certain things, there’s fraud in death certificates, those are things we know ... But there was another evil in our past, human rights violations inside the ANC’s detention camps in Angola. We’ll take a good look at that too tonight. Let’s first go inside the cells of death. of any decision taken by cabinet, the State Security Council or any committee, authorising or instructing the commission of such gross violations of human rights. Nor did I individually, directly or indirectly ever suggest, order or authorise any such action. I feel in duty bound to also place on ... ... of the total onslaught kind was at its harshest. The frustration of stifled resistance and powerlessness stirred up a sinister side of the human psyche that few imagined possible. Proud young lions turned into mad hyenas. Tonight we examine the shame of the struggle for freedom and ... The Human Rights Violations Committee visits Paarl in the Boland this coming week and the Amnesty Committee will hear the application of the killer of Trust Feed, Captain Brian Mitchell, in Pietermaritzburg. That means, don’t miss our programme next Sunday. Good night. ... such an attack was the Highgate massacre in East London which claimed the lives of five people and shattered the lives of many others. At the last human rights violations hearing in the Eastern Cape this week survivors and victims’ families spoke frankly about their pain and ... We appeal to those of you who may have suffered gross violations of human rights. Please, please December the 14th is the cut-off date. You must, if you have not already done so, complete a statement form that you hand over to the TRC because if in fact you have been a victim and you didn’t ... ‘After the break… // Leon Wessels crosses the Rubicon // Looking back at human rights violations // The Intelezi Shield.’ ... process will be dominated by amnesty hearings starting in late January. Slowly a picture is forming of how the amnesty committee thinks and which human rights violations they consider to be pardonable and which ones not. Let’s take a look at some of the most recent judgements handed down by ... Yasmin Sooka is a prominent and powerful member of the Truth Commission. She’s Deputy Chairperson of the Human Rights Violations Committee. She has a reputation for being passionate and forthright. ... by former Defence Minister Magnus Malan; in Nelspruit for amnesty hearings; and in the Northwest towns of Zeerust, Rustenburg and Mabopane for human rights violations hearings. And next Sunday we will again bring you the full story. Good night. ... ... Truth Commission devoted much of its energy in 1996 to the testimony of victims. In 1997 the granting of amnesty to the perpetrators of those gross human rights violations will be the main emphasis. In the original legislation perpetrators could get amnesty only for acts committed before 14 ... A lot of the evidence I have listened to at the Truth Commission hearings were really heartbreaking. But when the testimony is about the human rights violations of children, it is more than disturbing. The Truth Commission recently held special children’s hearings in East London and Bloemfontein. ... |
