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Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Mon Oct 18 19:02:20 CDT 1999
Apartheid means never having to say you're sorry...
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561687315-068
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - If white South Africans are sorry for
atrocities committed under apartheid, not many are saying so. Just a
few hundred people have signed a register expressing regret at
failing to prevent human rights violations under apartheid, and the
issue of redress for those who suffered seems to have slipped off the
public agenda. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a panel set
up to look into apartheid-era abuses, started a "register of
reconciliation" in 1997 for people to convey their remorse and commit
themselves to reconciliation. South Africa's white population numbers
4.5 million, or about 11% of the population. ...
d o u g m i l l i s o n
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