"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.
Genres
- 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
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