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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 561 to 580 of 856 First Page•Previous Page 25 •26 •27 •28 •29 •30 •31 •32 •33 Next Page•Last Page... IFP’s adoption of this alternative strategy. 118. In its 1998 Report, the Commission found that the IFP was responsible for gross violations of human rights committed in the former Transvaal, Natal and KwaZulu against persons who were perceived to be leaders, members or supporters of the UDF, ... Overview of violations 113 Of the 1500 human rights violations statements received for this period (1976–82), over 400 were drawn from 1976 alone. The number of reports of severe ill treatment increase two and a half times compared to the previous period. 114 Street battles between police and ... ... below. See also Chapter Six of this section. IFP ordinary members 20. The Committee received seventy applications from ordinary IFP members for human rights violations committed in areas all over KwaZulu/Natal. ... ... which transcends the conflicts and divisions of the past by establishing a complete picture of the causes, nature and extent of gross violations of human rights by conducting investigations and holding hearings; facilitating the granting of amnesty to persons who make full disclosure of all the ... ... which transcends the conflicts and divisions of the past by establishing a complete picture of the causes, nature and extent of gross violations of human rights by conducting investigations and holding hearings; facilitating the granting of amnesty to persons who make full disclosure of all the ... which transcends the conflicts and divisions of the past by establishing a complete picture of the causes, nature and extent of g ross violations of human rights by conducting investigations and holding hearings; facilitating the granting of amnesty to persons who make full disclosure of all the ... ... incidents of murder and attempted murder in KwaZulu/Natal and admitted to giving orders to ten other applicants who were involved in a total of 165 human rights violations. It emerged in his testimony before the Amnesty Committee that he was the political commissar and commander of hit squads ... refused and said I am working for my children. He was mercilessly killed and set alight. It was for the first time for me to see a charred body of a human being. 137 Ms Christina Buthelezi [JB00682/01GTSOW] was wounded in the police shooting that day. She told the Commission that she had been ... ... – Mthiyeni Joseph Mthethwa was shot during this attack. 55 Phama’s amnesty hearing had not taken place at the time of writing. 56 Human Rights Commission, Monthly Repression Report, May 1993. 57 The Commission has taken one statement regarding this attack. See JB02171/01ERKAT. ... ... being involved in the killing of a number of youths when booby-trapped hand grenades blew up in their hands. Ms Moloko told her story at the Duduza human rights violations hearing: Maki was a Comrade. She was politically active. We woke up, and we saw quite a number of corpses around the place ... ... AT THE NIGHT VIGIL AND MANY OTHERS INJURED. THAT THE KHESWA GANG, THE IFP AND THE POLICE MUST ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE COMMISSION OF GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. 577 On 3 July 1991 Mr Ernest Sotsu’s wife, Constance, his daughter, Margaret and his two-year-old grandson, Sabata, ... Public order policing: the anti-pass campaign 31 The anti-pass campaign of 1960 saw the first gross violations of human rights in the western Cape in the Commission’s mandate period. The PAC had called on all African men to leave their passes at home on 21 March and give themselves up for ... court. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT MANY OF THE ARMED ATTACKS BY MK MEMBERS AMOUNTED TO ATTACKS ON ‘SOFT TARGETS’ OR ON INSTALLATIONS WITH SERIOUS HUMAN RISK. AT LEAST FOUR CIVILIANS WERE KILLED. FIRSTLY, THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT DURING 1985 A SERIES OF HAND GRENADE ATTACKS DIRECTLY TARGETED ... contributed to a lack of knowledge about and participation in the process of making Commission statements.46 46 With the establishment of a range of human rights-linked NGOs in the western Cape in the 1990s, a great deal of recording and analytical work was done on most of these areas. The ... ... Two white people were later convicted for these acts. Overview of violations 29 Severe ill treatment and torture were the chief forms of gross human rights violations reported for this fifteen-year period. 30 Most of these violations took place in the Peninsula and Boland areas, with a ... ... in August 1987 and was executed seven months later. THE COMMISSION FINDS THAT EXECUTION FOR POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED OFFENCES CONSTITUTED A GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION. 215 In Worcester, certain police personnel are repeatedly named as torturers, including Warrant Officer Lucas van ... ... task required detailed research and the careful matching of information from a variety of sources including amnesty applications. The HRVC’s only human resources for this project were the two remaining researchers who worked extremely hard on compiling the cases for this report. They scanned ... ... IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE RELEVANT STRUCTURES OF THE JMCS, PLANNED AND EXECUTED AN ACTION IN ATHLONE WHICH RESULTED IN SEVERAL GROSS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. 174 Six months after the Athlone incident, on 26 March 1986, security forces concealed in a railway truck shot dead three people near ... Torture 189 The Commission accumulated data from human rights violations statements, amnesty statements and statements made to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) regarding the assault and torture of detainees prior to the state of emergency, under the emergency and under section 29. Cape ... ... Committee’s reparation policy. 26. The compilation of a comprehensive report on exhumations was one of the major tasks assigned to the Human Rights Violations (HRV) Committee in the period after the handing over of the Commission’s Final Report in October 1998. 27. The HRV ... |
