tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post115777840922116823..comments2024-03-20T19:23:09.857+02:00Comments on Notes from underground: Repentance, reconciliation and Adriaan VlokSteve Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11283123400540587033noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-20160979475501552282009-06-05T01:09:15.942+02:002009-06-05T01:09:15.942+02:00##
#What It’s Like to Chill with the Most Ruthles...##<br /><br />#What It’s Like to Chill with the Most Ruthless Men in the World<br />Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic:<br /> Confessions of a Female War Crimes Investigator<br /><br /><br /> Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.<br /><br />http://sites.google.com/site/jillstarrsite/what-it-s-like-to-chill-with-the-most-ruthless-men-in-the-world-ratko-mladic-and-radovan-karadzic-confessions-of-a-female-war-crimes-investigatorjean frankel tries to murder me of ideas for action llchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14006643935969042900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-1162898425579976692006-11-07T13:20:00.000+02:002006-11-07T13:20:00.000+02:00Why can't we just take this for what it is and giv...Why can't we just take this for what it is and give thanks that someone of Mr Vlok's ilk has repented, there is no need to demand that people repent "more" , he is on the road to further repentence and has set an example. I'm sure that Nelson Mandela , the ultimate in role models will praise this attempt by Vlok to ask forgiveness for his sins. He could have sat and sulked in Wilderness like PW for the rest of his life, without even trying to act for absolution. Every bit counts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19384577.post-1157877699745532252006-09-10T10:41:00.000+02:002006-09-10T10:41:00.000+02:00I have been sickened by the parade of "penitent" f...I have been sickened by the parade of "penitent" former Broeders and apartheid politicians, who have been giving us their words and crocodile tears – while (as far as I know) not a single one of them has returned to society even a fraction of the wealth they accumulated during their years in power.<BR/> <BR/>I am also sickened by the smug and "deeply moved" way in which ANC leaders accept these public displays of "contrition", leaders whose own hands are stained with the blood of countless innocents, and whose bank accounts are often in a healthier state than even those of the former apartheid nomenklatura.<BR/><BR/>Repentance and reconciliation are not compatible with hypocrisy. And to repent of what you have brutally taken from others, without giving back as much as you can, is not repentance. It’s politics. <BR/><BR/>If Mr. Vlok and his friends are truly as repentant as they pretend to be, they would follow in the footsteps of Saint Frances and go naked into the world to do some good, and to undo some of the harm they have done.<BR/><BR/>As for those ANC leaders who must share in the blame for the murder of Dr Edelstein (where is his monument?), the innocent, random victims of bombs placed in public places, and the countless victims of politically managed gossip and rumour who were tortured to death by necklacing. I fear we shall never hear their words of repentance, nor witness their acts of contrition. Unless, of course, they suddenly find themselves stripped of power and privilege, and must find ways to protect their ill-gotten gains and keep the evil they had done in the distant past hidden.<BR/><BR/>Sam van den BergAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com