Pardons Upheld for Apartheid Killers
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From Times Wire Reports
South Africa’s most powerful court rejected attempts by the families of murdered activists, including Steve Biko, to prevent apartheid-era killers from being pardoned if they confess. The 11-member Constitutional Court ruled that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had the right to grant amnesty to people who committed human rights abuses under apartheid if they tell all about their crimes. Biko, whose story was told in the film “Cry Freedom,” was killed in police detention in 1977.
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