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HUMAN, HSAge Description Showing 241 to 260 of 340 First Page•Previous Page 9 •10 •11 •12 •13 •14 •15 •16 •17 Next Page•Last PageI was terrified that one day I would be gang raped by those bullies. After all what self respecting males armed to the teeth, swagger with bravado, escorting an unarmed woman whose only armoury is her brains, skin colour and resolve to live a life of love and respect for other human beings. ... across the borders and he was the architect of that vicious ideology of the 1980s, the total onslaught. It is a hard fact that the vast majority of human rights violations reported to the Truth Commission and the vast majority of crimes for which policemen and soldiers are asking amnesty, ... I really need to know how you felt when you saw what you had done to human life. I really really need to know that, because can you remember their faces maybe? Can you remember how shocked they looked? Can you remember when they fell? Can you remember anything about that? // Mam, I don’t want it ... The AWB will be with us again next week when six jailed AWB men ask for amnesty from the Truth Commission in Pretoria. Our team will also attend the Human Rights Violation session in Pietersburg. So let’s make an appointment for next Sunday evening at quarter to seven. Good night. The forces of evil are always present in the hearts and minds of all human beings of all political persuasions on whatever side of the liberation struggle that you fight and that you sustain. And we must all accept that. of any decision taken by cabinet, the State Security Council or any committee, authorising or instructing the commission of such gross violations of human rights. Nor did I individually, directly or indirectly ever suggest, order or authorise any such action. I feel in duty bound to also place on ... ... of the total onslaught kind was at its harshest. The frustration of stifled resistance and powerlessness stirred up a sinister side of the human psyche that few imagined possible. Proud young lions turned into mad hyenas. Tonight we examine the shame of the struggle for freedom and ... Yasmin Sooka is a prominent and powerful member of the Truth Commission. She’s Deputy Chairperson of the Human Rights Violations Committee. She has a reputation for being passionate and forthright. The Human Rights Violations Committee visits Paarl in the Boland this coming week and the Amnesty Committee will hear the application of the killer of Trust Feed, Captain Brian Mitchell, in Pietermaritzburg. That means, don’t miss our programme next Sunday. Good night. ... such an attack was the Highgate massacre in East London which claimed the lives of five people and shattered the lives of many others. At the last human rights violations hearing in the Eastern Cape this week survivors and victims’ families spoke frankly about their pain and ... We appeal to those of you who may have suffered gross violations of human rights. Please, please December the 14th is the cut-off date. You must, if you have not already done so, complete a statement form that you hand over to the TRC because if in fact you have been a victim and you didn’t ... ‘After the break… // Leon Wessels crosses the Rubicon // Looking back at human rights violations // The Intelezi Shield.’ This is a place that is known throughout the world for the triumph of the human spirit. It’s out of this place where freedom fighters were going to be crushed. The prison people tell them that in five years time people would have forgotten your names and out of this came Mandela and the ideas ... The Truth Commission’s Human Rights Violations Committee will hold hearings at the University of Western Cape in Belville this week as well as in Sebokeng in the Vaal Triangle. In our report next Sunday we will have special features on women and torture and the Boipatong massacre of June 1992. ... interview I did manage to talk to Brian Mitchell and during a conversation that lasted almost an hour I felt that I had glimpsed a sincerely changed human being behind the face of this mass killer, a man who eight years ago had little or no regard for life and for black lives in particular. A ... ... the overwhelming majority of the actions carried out in the context of that just war of national liberation do not constitute gross violations of human rights within the meaning of the Act establishing and mandating the Commission. ... there are six more witnesses which we still have to take. Could you please in summary form, as the person is asking you, who is leading you, give us human rights violations which were done to you by the ANC on those camps, and give us your requests to the Commission. // I said, as a mutineer we ... ... by us. During the time we committed these acts we believed it was right. If I look back today I can see it was a waste of time, money and valuable human lives. It served no purpose. Absolutely nothing. We should rather have stayed at home. Things would have gone better. It served no purpose. It ... ... fire on commuters on their way to work, the reason being they had opted for trains and not use the government owned buses at the time. At the last human rights violations hearing in Mdansane, Eastern Cape the Commission heard how people had been shot at in the dark after showing solidarity with ... ... like the one last week. We mostly hear the voices of perpetrators now. But it is important not to forget the first crucial part of the process: the Human Rights Violations hearings, the voices of the victims of the past. This is a ... |
