A human being died that night

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"Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads, is currently serving a 212-year sentence for crimes against humanity. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, who grew up in a black township in South Africa served as a psychologist on that country's great national experiment in healing, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As this book opens, in an act of inescapable, multilayered symbolism and extraordinary psychological courage, Gobodo-Madikizela enters Pretoria's maximum security prison to meet the man called "Prime Evil." What follows is a journey into what it means to be human.". "Gobodo-Madikizela's journey with de Kock, during which she allows us to witness the extraordinary awakening of his remorse, brings us to one of the great questions of our time: What does it mean when we discover that the incarnation of evil is as frighteningly human as we are?"--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Human rights,  Reconciliation,  Police,  Torture,  Political aspects of Reconciliation,  Political persecution,  Political violence,  Biography,  Death squads,  Police, biography,  Human rights, south africa,  Political aspects,  Police, africa,  De kock, eugene,  Police--south africa--biography,  Reconciliation--political aspects,  Reconciliation--political aspects--south africa,  Death squads--south africa,  Political violence--south africa,  Political persecution--south africa,  Torture--south africa,  Human rights--south africa,  Hv7911.d439 g63 2003,  363.2/092 b

People: Eugene De Kock

Places: South Africa