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By Mr. Richard J. Goldstone

During this stirring booklet Richard J. Goldstone chronicles his development from a younger activist opposing South Africa's racial rules to the world's first self sustaining conflict crimes' prosecutor. A justice of the Constitutional court docket of South Africa, Goldstone has additionally served as leader prosecutor for United international locations tribunals on human rights crimes within the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. His targeted firsthand adventure investigating those crimes supplies profound weight to his plea for an enduring foreign felony courtroom. The fort Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics

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6024 Goldstone / FOR HUMANITY / sheet 54 of 176     Early that afternoon I received a telephone call from Mandela. ) He immediately apologized to me for the unfair remarks he had made, which indeed had been based on the news reports. Only after his address had he been able to read the report itself. He had found it to be objective and fair and agreed with most of what it contained. The second reason for his call was to inform me that he had called a press conference which was to take place a couple of hours later.

At that time it was most unusual for the South African government to consider any foreign involvement in the affairs of our country, so I welcomed this opportunity. That evening we had been invited for dinner to the home of Roger Arrera, a judge and human rights activist. While dressing for dinner, I discussed possible international jurists with Noleen. My first choice was former Chief Justice Proful Bhagwati of India, whom I had met a few months earlier in Johannesburg when he was attending an international conference on bills of rights.

Minty said he had informed the manager that I was a very important visitor and should be treated accordingly. I shall return presently to my association with Minty. Soon after the establishment of the investigation units, the commission decided to embark on a new inquiry—not into specific incidents of violence but into ways of preventing violence during public marches, demonstrations, and pickets. Such an investigation was not only urgent but of immediate and long-term relevance. Public demonstrations were the only peaceful means by which the disenfranchised majority in South Africa could make a powerful political statement.

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