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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 301 to 320 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 Next Page•Last Pagethere are six more witnesses which we still have to take. Could you please in summary form, as the person is asking you, who is leading you, give us human rights violations which were done to you by the ANC on those camps, and give us your requests to the Commission. // I said, as a mutineer we ... 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 ... ... 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 ... If we should judge the apartheid state on how they treated their prisoners then we should certainly also judge the liberation movement on how they treated theirs. The name Quatro is a dark stain on the human rights record of the ANC in the late seventies and early eighties. ... fire on commuters on their way to work, the reason being they had opted for trains and not use the government owned buses at the time. At the last human rights violations hearing in Mdansane, Eastern Cape the Commission heard how people had been shot at in the dark after showing solidarity with ... The forces of evil are always present in the hearts and minds of all human beings of all political persuasions on whatever side of the liberation struggle that you fight and that you sustain. And we must all accept that. 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 ... … // 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. ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... they took the position that the recommendations that went forward was that people should not hold public positions where they were involved in gross human rights violations. // Even if they were fighting a just war? // I don’t have an answer to that particular ... ... along a dusty Mafikeng road signifies the demise of militant white supremacy. The former Bophuthatswana was where the Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee had its hearings this week. The jewel and the crown of grand apartheid stood exposed as a brutal, private fiefdom. ... Satirists always get away with murder. Well that’s it for this week. The Human Rights Violations Committee will visit de Aar, Colesberg, Hanover and Welkom this coming week. We look forward to your company next Sunday evening. Good night. ... normal legal protective measures also created circumstances and an atmosphere which were conducive to many of the abuses and transgressions against human rights which forms the basis of the Commission’s present ... When we look at this new face of Eugene de Kock and wonder why he seems so human and normal we should remember what the author Hannah Arendt said about the notorious Nazi leader Adolf Eichman in her book Inquiry into the Banality of Evil. This is what she wrote. // ‘The trouble with Eichman was ... ... and Reconciliation Commission and we as a nation have to deal with two kinds of truth about our past, the truth through the eyes of the victims of human rights abuses and the truth as seen by those responsible for those abuses. We have now heard the voices of the victims, or perhaps we should ... Since the completion of Human Rights Violations hearings the work of the R&R Committee has intensified as commissioners look back over all the cases that have come before then in order to make findings about victims and their needs. It’s tiring and sad work, but not entirely without compensation. And out of the blue one day in 1995 Barney Pityana phoned me and said Wendy can the Human Rights Commission nominate you for the TRC? And I said Barney I’d be honoured, but surely there are other people who are far more appropriate and suitable. And he said, no we think you should be on it so I ... |
