Archbishop Desmond Tutu: ‘Our country did not go the way of Nuremberg, to bring the perpetrators
of such crimes to trial…Our country rejected the other extreme of a blanket amnesty, as
happened in General Augusto Pinochet’s Chile….
Our country chose a middle way of individual amnesty for truth. Some
would say, what about justice? And we say retributive justice is not the
only kind of justice. There is also restorative justice, because we believe
in Ubuntu — the essence of being human, that idea that we are all
caught up in a delicate network of interdependence. We say, “A person
is a person through other persons.” I need you in order to be me and
you need me in order to be you.’ [via iBoy]
