TRC’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS JUSTICE, CLOSURE REMAINS ELUSIVE FOR VICTIMS
Mar 21, 2021
3 minutes
YASMIN SOOKA
CORNELL TUKIRI
EPA
AS SOUTH Africans celebrate 27 years of Human Rights Day, we remember the 69 people killed in Sharpeville on March 21, 1960, by apartheid-era police, while protesting the inhumane pass laws.
Despite the UN declaring apartheid a crime against humanity in 1973, and the Constitutional Court in the 2005 Basson case confirming that murder, torture, persecution, forced removals, and enforced disappearance constituted a crime against humanity, not a single apartheid politician has been indicted
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