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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">THe Human Rights
Film Series continues of Wednesday Nov. 9 at 7 pm in FPH 107 with a
screening of the powerful "Long Night's Journey Into Day: South
Africa's Search for Truth and Reconciliation (2000), 94
minutes.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">In South Africa's
Truth and Reconciliation Commission process, perpetrators of the
atrocities of the apartheid years (1948-1994) were offered amnesty
from criminal prosecution, but only on condition that they speak the
truth in public hearings about what they did. Torturers and killers
face survivors and their family members, all of whom give voice to
their stories of brutalization and murder, anger, grief, and shame.
Will the process of speaking truth and building a historical narrative
move the new non-racial nation toward forgiveness and reconciliation
for the abuses of the past? Or are the perpetrators simply let off the
hook in a gamble to avoid more serious social conflict?</font></div>
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Sponsored by SS106T Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, the Law
Program and the Dean of Multicultural Education.</font></div>
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