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Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 02:00
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131 [3]
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness, has been dubbed by some as Interviews with a Vampire. In fact it is a nuanced and clinical scrutiny of how and why an apparently ordinary man became murderer-in-chief for the brutal apartheid regime. It dwells on his atrocities - the torture, the ambushes, the executions, the exultation in inflicting suffering - and yet concludes that Eugene de Kock, otherwise known as Prime Evil and sentenced to 212 years for crimes again...read more [4]

A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness, has been dubbed by some as Interviews with a Vampire. In fact it is a nuanced and clinical scrutiny of how and why an apparently ordinary man became murderer-in-chief for the brutal apartheid regime. It dwells on his atrocities - the torture, the ambushes, the executions, the exultation in inflicting suffering - and yet concludes that Eugene de Kock, otherwise known as Prime Evil and sentenced to 212 years for crimes against humanity, deserves to be forgiven.

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Arts & Books [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/books/18140 [6]
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South Africa [7]

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