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HUMAN, HSAge Description Human rights violations in ANC detention camps Human rights violations at ANC rehab camps TRC’s Human Rights Violations Committee members, Gauteng office Human rights violations, Bophuthatswana: The murder of Frieda Mabalane by comrades, the Bop coup, the fall of Mangope and the AWB debacle. Human rights violations inside the ANC’s detention camps Human rights violations in the former Venda. Looking back at 14 months of the TRC’s Human Rights Violations Hearings Truth Commission hearings in Beaufort West focusing on human rights violations perpetrated in Victoria West Consequences of human rights violations; Tshidiso Motasi meets his father killer, Paul van Vuuren Human rights violations committed in the Northern Province Patrick Hlongwane, a perpetrator and victim of human right violations Looking back at the Human Rights Violations hearings Complicity of medics in human rights abuses Empangeni Human Rights Violations Hearings, Kwazulu-Natal violence This week’s session of the Truth Commission was actually a sitting of its Human Rights Committee. Let’s take a look at how the commission works. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has 17 members and is divided into three committees: The Committee on Human Rights Violations, the Committee ... ... such as Winnie Mandela and Robert McBride. Sitting in Durban the Truth Commission hearings reminded South Africans that atrocities and human rights violations were not the monopoly of the apartheid state. KwaZulu-Natal’s low intensity civil war was reflected day after day. ... ... particular issues are not at the forefront of the attention of the Commission. The Commission is looking really at perpetrators who have committed human rights violations and particularly gross human rights violations and also victims who are coming forward to tell stories about how those ... ... Pan Africanist Congress, the Afrikaner Broederbond, the National Party and the Freedom Front. That’s where the Truth Commission’s Committee on Human Rights Violations sat this week. The total onslaught years of the eighties were the worst period of repression and sometimes we forget about ... ... But it is only now as the Truth Commission hears the stories of ordinary people that the full scale of medical complicity becomes clear. Abuse of human rights was not confined to those in uniform. Many doctors and health workers were part of the system of state abuse. Some, simply because they ... ... to the task of the Truth Commission and that quite simply is to start a national debate on what should be done for the many, many victims of gross human rights violations. While some perpetrators have already been granted amnesty, victims have not even begun to have their losses restored. What ... |