(THE HERALD) ‘Prosecute ANC leaders’
‘Prosecute ANC leaders’PRETORIA.
A South African whose family was killed in a 1985 landmine blast launched a push yesterday for the attack’s African National Congress masterminds to go on trial after a decision to prosecute an apartheid era police minister.
Dirk Van Eck said he had written to the National Prosecuting Authority after compiling a 140-page dossier, containing evidence of how many leaders of the now ruling ANC allegedly ordered deadly attacks in the 1980s.
While he was not seeking the prosecution of the operatives, who carried out the 1985 attack, Van Eck said it was only right their commanders were placed in the dock, for the death of his wife and two children, given the recent decision to prosecute former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok for attempted murder.
"I am not doing it for my own benefit and after 21 years, it’s not nice to have to relive this . . . but if we are going to start prosecuting, let’s
do it on both sides," said the frikaans farmer from North-West Province.
The letter to the NPA states "there is ample proof that the ANC leaders of the 1980s can be held responsible politically, morally and in terms of criminal justice for the landmine attack on the Van Eck family, as
well as other acts of terror of the 1980s".
The detailed dossier will be submitted to the prosecutors, provided they agree to take evidence.
The NPA’s decision to place Vlok and four co-accused on trial next month over the attempted murder 18 years ago of Frank Chikane, now a senior aide to South African President, Thabo Mbeki, has angered many Afrikaners.
Unlike many members of the former National Party government, Vlok did appear before the state’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission but only applied for amnesty for a limited number of offences, not including Chikane’s poisoning.
Kallie Kriel, spokesman for Afriforum, an Afrikaans group assisting Van Eck, said the decision to prosecute Vlok had reopened wounds that the TRC had been set up to heal.
"If we now start questioning the process, it questions the credibility of the TRC being able to solve conflicts of the past," he said. —AFP.
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posted by MrK @ 8:16 PM
1 Comments:
These scumbags just don't get it, and until the war criminals are prosecuted to the full extent of the law, they will never get it.
There is no moral equivalence between the people who fought against apartheid, and the scumbags who murdered and tortured to uphold apartheid.
It is like saying 'the British were just as bad as the nazis' because Bomber Harris ordered the fire bombing of Dresden - conveniently forgetting that without nazism, without the invasion of Poland and Holland, Belgium, France, there whould have been no bombing of Germany at all.
It is like saying - 'if you want to go after Goering and Hess, you must go after Winston Churchill too'.
'Let's prosecute both sides'?? These pieces of human garbage must be made to understand the errors of their ways. I say declare apartheid a crime against humanity, and prosecute everyone who perpetrated it, especially torture, and give everyone who fought against apartheid a clean slate, if they even need it.
These pieces of scum must be made to understand why apartheid was wrong. I was against this TRC garbage, because now everyone who is an Afrikaner will be looked at as a possible former torturer or murderer. There is no cleansing of society, so everyone can move forward and trust the person next to them.
So I say, at least, prosecute all the apartheid war criminals who were not part of the TRC 'reconciliation' project.
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