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HUMAN, HSAge Description signs – if you want to know where to go you turn left at that memorial and so on. The other kinds of monuments that have a living, breathing, very human quality, in their very nature, it can be a building itself - Robben Island and the prison on Robben Island is such a powerful monument; you ... ... parties who agreed to the settlement that brought us our freedom and democracy four years ago. The Commission has essentially four legs. First the Human Rights Violations hearings which dominated the first few months of the process. Any citizen who had been on the receiving end of a politically ... brother they were talking and they were saying, we don’t have any hatred, we forgive the killers. When you saw that, what did you feel? // I’m a human being, I have feelings. It was bad, but unfortunately it already took place, the people are already dead, no matter how I feel now at this ... ... has respect for justice you would have long been locked up and probably even hanged. // I think Joe Mamasela is an animal. I don’t think he’s a human being. Because to stab a person 45 times as he did; I don’t think he belongs to the world of the human beings, he belongs to one of the ... have this capacity to forgive, this magnanimity and the dignity that is being affirmed. We are asked by the Act to help in the rehabilitation of the human and civil dignity and I have seen it happen and it has been a great privilege to be part of this process. // These are people who for so long ... 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. 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 ... ... set on a pedestal and beyond criticism. I can quite understand the importance of their independence, but they speak as if they are not first of all human beings, human beings who are formed by the society in which they live. But there are people who came out of homes that regarded black people as ... ... involvement of Mrs. Mandela and members of the football club. These have been in statements made by victims who have come forward to complain about human rights violations. Mrs. Mandela herself at all times while she was subpoenaed called for a public inquiry and the Commission was quite pleased ... for the pain to stop it is necessary to take leave of the bones and the body, to bid farewell to the only real reminder of a life that is gone. // A human being is not an animal, a beast, to be killed and your bones just lie somewhere in the open. We say we’ll hold a service somewhere. People ... ... 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 ... Evil is the power to subvert everything which is good and moral in the life of a human being. It is a force inside the human being which brings you to do what normally you would not wish to do. ... where we had a fascist system in the country, detention without trial, where there was no democracy, when apartheid was regarded as a crime against humanity. It was a time when we youth activists had become radicalised, we had been in and out of detention, assaulted by police, harassed. It’s a ... The Amnesty Committee and the Human Rights Violations Committee will sit in Cape Town this coming week and there will be human rights violations hearings in Piet Retief, Ermelo and Standerton. We’re also preparing a documentary on child victims of our bitter conflict. So until next Sunday, good ... ... 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 ... We certainly can expect a greater sense of urgency from the Truth Commission from now on. Perpetrators of human rights violations go to the Truth Commission to ask for amnesty, but what is in it for the victims? Everyone appearing at a human rights violations hearing requests something of the ... 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 ... ... reaction to Debbie that she knew us and they gave us Phoenix. // I want to ask society to redevelop the moral attitude that to kill another human being is a totally and absolutely unacceptable sin. I’d don’t care what they’d been through in their lives or what they’d been taught ... ... 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 ... ... 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 ... |
