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http://www.newsroom.co.nz/stories/HL9810/S00148.htm
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Friday, 30 October 1998, 11:28 am
Successive South African governments were responsible for the vast
majority of human rights violations committed during the apartheid years,
but other major political organisations were also violent, according to the
report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, released today.
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"The predominant portion of gross violations of human rights was committed
by the former state through its security and law-enforcement agencies," the
report says.
"In pursuit of these unlawful activities, the state acted in collusion
with certain other political groupings, most notably the Inkatha Freedom
Party (IFP)."
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The ANC said the vast majority of their supporters engaged only in peaceful
political action, and has offered no apology.
"The masses of our people and the organisation that led them to
freedom will always be proud of the fact that by the way they conducted
themselves in struggle. They laid the basis for national unity and
reconciliation in our country as well as the very establishment of a Truth
and Reconciliation Commission," they said in a statement today.
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Related Links:
<A HREF="http://www.truth.org.za/">http://www.truth.org.za/</A>
<A HREF="http://www.woza.co.za/">http://www.woza.co.za/</A>
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