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...former member of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the organization charged with investigation crimes committed under apartheid, spoke about her work before a packed house at the Bunting Institute last night...
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a peace fellow of the Institute, told a crowd of about 150 chilling stories of her interviews with both the victims and perpetrators of apartheid...
Gobodo-Madikizela began her talk with a shorthistory of events that led to the TRC's creationin December 1995. Background information isnecessary, she said, "to give a clearunderstanding of the struggle of apartheid inSouth Africa...
According to Gobodo-Madikizela, the TRC wascreated to investigate crimes committed between1960 and 1994. It has heard testimony from over21,000 victims of apartheid...
Assassination, torture, kidnapping and execution were tools of law enforcement in apartheid South Africa -- that much is clear from the 3,500-page true-life horror story released by the Truth Commission Thursday. Its exhaustive accounts, from perpetrators and victims, of almost every apartheid-era violation is a gut-wrenching chronicle of evil's violent banality. Little will change as a result of the report; even the recommendation of prosecution for those who failed to seek amnesty for specific violations -- such as former president P.W. Botha and former first lady Winnie Mandela -- is unlikely to be deemed politically or legally...