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people's warExplanation Showing 621 to 640 of 916 First Page•Previous Page 28 •29 •30 •31 •32 •33 •34 •35 •36 Next Page•Last PageOutcome of audit 59. The task team established that more than 60 per cent of the exhumations had been adequately performed by the units in KwaZulu-Natal and Johannesburg. 60. However, it also established that there were certain serious corroboration problems in 20 per cent of the cases. In the ... PROBLEMS OF CORROBORATION 87. The Commission received more than 22 000 HRV statements. Most statements contained information relating to multiple victims, requiring the Commission to verify more than 40 000 individual cases. Most statements also referred to more than one violation, thus ... THE COMPLETION OF VICTIM FINDINGS 14. Completing victim findings was the major task and priority for the HRVC. The Act required that the HRVC establish the ‘victim status’ of a deponent before s/he could be considered eligible for reparation. Accessing reparation through the RRC was thus ... THE VICTIMS’ VOLUME (VOLUME SEVEN) 36. The Commission decided to prepare a summary of the experiences of each victim who came to the Commission, either through HRVC or the Amnesty Committee. The completion of this volume became one of the greatest challenges for the HRVC. Many dedicated ... Responsibility for complicity 103. In dealing with the atrocities of the past, the search for justice and accountability has meant that it is important to go beyond those who commit the crimes – the trigger-pullers – and to identify those who are complicit in the violations because they ... ... took place at different levels. Agents believed that they had a general mandate to kill political opponents whom they believed to be contributing towards the instability of the state. Evidence in the ‘Pebco Three’ hearing confirms that there had been an instruction from the Minister of Law ... INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW The Geneva Conventions 37. The Geneva Conventions were adopted in 1949 and additional Protocols I and II in 1977. The Conventions are considered to be binding in international law. Virtually every government in the world has accepted their tenets by ratifying them. ... Abductions 8. This term was defined as the ‘forcible and illegal removal or capturing of a person’. It was applied to those cases where people had ‘disappeared’ after having last been seen in the custody of the police or of other persons who were using force. It does not include those ... CHARACTERISTICS OF DISAPPEARANCES 18. Generally a disappearance is not referred to as such if the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared are known, if a body is found, or if it becomes known that the victim is dead. The Commission has, for the most part, followed this policy in its classification ... ... information related to particular incidents. d Category E (Cases of indeterminate cause): Here investigation and research need to be directed towards moving persons in this category into one of above three categories or into Category D (non-political/out of mandate) More detailed statements ... KONSERWATIEWE PARTY 27. The Conservative Party (CP) was founded in March 1982 under the leadership of Dr Andries Treurnicht who, until earlier that month, had been Transvaal leader of the National Party and a minister in President PW Botha’s cabinet. 28. After serious differences of opinion ... ... During this fracas, a number of people were killed and injured. Rudolph himself sustained minor injuries. 247. Rudolph testified that he was fully aware of the high political tension that prevailed and that he had forseen that conflict would arise from the actions that they regarded as the ... van der Schyff [AM5435/97]. 224. After mounting a roadblock, the applicants searched several cars for weapons they wanted to confiscate for their ‘war’. The occupants of two cars were assaulted and later shot. An ear of one of the victims was cut off to show their commander, AWB General Japie ... ... courage to act in accordance with that which I felt so s t rongly’ (Johannesburg hearing, 7 April 1997). 220. Vosloo testified that he had been aware of the negotiations taking place at Kempton Park at the time and was afraid of a black take-over from the National Party-led government. He was ... P re-election bombing campaigns September 1993–February 1994 277. AWB member Mr Nicolaas Willem de Jongh [AM3375/96] was granted amnesty for two bomb attacks in the Eastern Cape during August 1993. 278. De Jongh, who held the rank of Commandant in the AWB, assisted two other members of that ... 24 and 25 April 1994 302. A number of people were killed on 24 and 25 April 1994 when eleven members of an AWB cell went on a bombing spree. The targets were mainly taxi ranks serving black commuters. The eleven were part of a group of twenty-six found guilty on ninety-six counts of pre-election ... MISSING DURING PERIODS OF UNREST OR VIOLENCE 72. Aside from missing persons known to have been abducted or arrested and those known to have gone into exile, an additional 117 people who are still missing disappeared during periods of heightened unrest. Unlike the abduction and exile categories, ... DISAPPEARED VERSUS MISSING 32. The Commission dealt with a number of cases where people had gone missing. In some instances, they went missing after a political rally or during a period of political unrest or state of emergency. 33. In a large number of cases reported to the Commission, the ... DISAPPEARED IN EXILE 59. Thousands of people went into exile between 1960 and the early 1990s. The vast majority of these joined the ANC, while a far smaller number joined the PAC or other small liberation groups such as the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). A number of exiles died in varying ... PART TWO: SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF AMNESTY APPLICATIONS ■ OVERVIEW 43. A large number of victim statements implicating right-wing perpetrators were received by the Commission, nearly all relating to violations committed from the late 1980s until the election in April 1994. The number of ... |
