Special Report Transcript Episode 18, Section 6, Time 32:31

The much awaited IFP perspective on the conflicts of the past was dominated by one main concern: that acts of aggression against its members had gone unquestioned. It appeared before the Commission as a victim and developed a case against the ANC as primary perpetrator. // I’ve decided to come here, your grace, members of the Commission, because we cannot in all conscience remain silent when no effort is made by this Commission to question who has killed 420 plus of the IFP’s leaders and murdered thousands of its supporters. These serial killings are a crime against humanity and demand answers. If this Commission wishes to establish the truth about our past then we’d suggest it owes the Republic of South Africa an explanation about the killings of IFP leaders and supporters. Nowhere else in the world could killing on such a grand scale go unchallenged and unexplained. We believe this Commission should ponder who has done the killing. The president of the ANC and current state president of our country declared before the United Nations that the Inkatha Freedom Party was a surrogate of the apartheid regime. Does that not imply that the apartheid regime could not therefore have killed IFP leaders and supporters if they are the surrogate of the regime? If it does, who then killed them?

Notes: Report by Gail Reagon; Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Inkatha Freedom Party)

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