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HUMAN, HSAge Description ... we have seen that this is a traumatic experience for victims and a very uncomfortable one for those who were responsible for or associated with the human rights abuses. We saw that again the last two weeks. Last week we had the secret graves of security police victims uncovered and this week the ... Every country that is an active signatory of the human rights agenda was approached and every one turned him down. John …. Turned him down despite my personal pleadings and far more importantly, despite the fact that this was human rights asylum seeker material, without a shadow of a doubt. ... prince Hernus Kriel this week said the National Party should start boycotting the Truth Commission. We stay in KwaZulu-Natal, but we move on the human rights violations hearings in Empangeni this week. After almost six months of testimony before the Truth Commission most of us have become ... ... because in Bonteheuwel there was there was a house and a road, there was one little shop, miles you had to walk to the shop. And, for me the human factor of this thing was very important and that is why even in my work I like working with the human … I can relate to that because I do ... ... incident wouldn’t have happened, I don’t believe, but in their case their command structure was very weak, very loose and they had the normal, human ability to kill. As I had, they had too. // I’ve been thinking all along about their mothers, it must have been very hard have for them their ... Most of the evidence brought to the Truth Commission in the last 11 months concerned human rights violations in the 1980s. But resistance to white minority rule started many decades ago and we as South Africans should remember the early struggles of our people. That is what the Truth Commission’s ... ... Especially the victims because we are the source of what they’re going through. I hope that they realize that even myself, personally as a human being that thing affected me. And even right now, I still can’t cope with it, that if God created me to be an angel of death that is ... ... at the end. Occasionally a stiff whiskey at the end of the day helps as well. So there’s a variety of ways, but …Some of the great themes of human existence are caught up in the life and work of the Commission and it’s something that has been with me since I was a young person trying to ... ... and Parliament are discussing their final decision on reparations which they are likely to make only after we have closed down. Secondly, the Human Rights Violations Committee of the TRC is making findings on each of the more than 20 000 statements which you have made to us. The Committee ... ... that this week’s health hearing was just a small step in a long process of healing, which should be followed up by the medical profession and human rights organisations. // If we achieve anything through this process I do hope that we insure that human beings are never again treated like ... ... and Rehabilitation Committee says the state has a moral obligation to compensate each and every South African who qualifies as a victim of a gross human rights violation. While human rights violations and amnesty hearings dominated the headlines in the past year and a half the Reparation and ... ... did not speak out enough against racist attitudes amongst our church members; did not speak out enough against impairment of people’s true, human dignity. During the Soweto riots of 1976 and in line countrywide unrest that followed, vague resolutions were passed concerning the state of ... Welcome back. The Truth Commission has the task of investigating gross human rights violations in our past. Some of these violations happened to communities and are hard to investigate as individual human rights violations, like the forced removal of black people who lived in areas where the ... ... you know how it feels? Can you imagine how it feels to bury the brain tissue of your own son of eight years old? Can you imagine what it does to a human being? How does one become human again after such an experience? Three days after the explosion my wife died. Jaco did not get better. He died ... What did happen? That’s what we don’t really know. What are the sorts of circumstances that’s conducive to human rights violations? What makes a doctor get sucked into the system in such a manner that he finds himself either complicit or actually directly involved in some sort of human rights ... the Truth Commission. Instead of explaining their role in the past the generals beat the ‘rooi gevaar’ drum, accused the liberation movements of human rights violations and on top of it demand an apology from the Truth Commission. We asked the Deputy Chairperson of the Truth Commission, Dr ... 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 ... ... have follow-up sessions with them before we forgot what they said. There are many, many unanswered questions. In the mean time the Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee goes to Durban and Uitenhage this coming week. Our appointment with you is next Sunday at quarter to seven. Good ... There have been many women before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Till now they have been in the background speaking mainly about human rights violations against loved ones. This week, a special session in Cape Town was dedicated to hearing the stories of women who have been directly ... ... all this back in 1989. They should not be surprised when eyebrows are raised about their obvious reluctance to speak freely and openly about the human rights violations committed in the period that they were called the Mandela Crisis Committee. Perhaps the one exception here is Minister Sydney ... |
