Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa chaired the TRC. In this video clip from Facing the Truth, with Bill Moyers, Tutu talks about the perpetrators of Apartheid.
ARCHBISHOP TUTU: We’re not seeking to humiliate them, we’re not seeking to belittle them, we’re not even seeking to prosecute them. We’re just saying that this is a moral universe, and you’ve got to take account of the fact that truth, and lies, and goodness, and evil, are things that matter, and that we’ve got to acknowledge them....
”I thought I knew the awfulness of apartheid. But you see, when it ceases to be statistics, and it is a real, live human being who says "this, that, and the other happened," that devastates you.
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