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rights that alleged perpetrators must be thrilled because we will defend to the death their rights to which it was we who struggled so that they could, they and all of us could today all of us enjoy them.
 Perpetrators in fact don't want justice.  What they need is grace, the grace of forgiveness, and I hope that they too will have the graciousness to acknowledge that they are sorry.
 It is a matter of public record that we are independent.  We have not been afraid to criticise even the new ANC led government of National Unity to the amazement of many.  In this Commission in all three hearings that have taken place so far, or the two and you will note here, we have heard and we will hear accounts of human rights violations right across the political spectrum.  In East London we had people who were the victims of an alleged APLA atrocity.  In East London we heard from victims of bombing in Highgate Hotel.  In Cape Town we heard someone come to speak on behalf of a necklacing victim, necklaced allegedly by so-called activists.  Here we are going to be hearing from victims of the so-called Church Street bombing in Pretoria.
 People have said this Commission will degenerate into a witch hunt.  Far from this being the case we have hardly paid attention to the perpetrators.  Last week in Cape Town one of the witnesses claims she recognised a police officer who was on the scene when her daughter was killed, and she broke down.  Now if we wanted to engage in a witch hunt we would have immediately rushed out to apprehend that police officer.  We did nothing of the sort because our concentration, and I want to underscore this, our
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