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"S. Africa delays decision on parole for apartheid-era killer" New York Times July 11, 2014
In one of the most charged cases in South Africa’s struggle to overcome its apartheid past, authorities Thursday postponed a decision on whether to parole Eugene de Kock, a convicted death-squad leader widely known as “Prime Evil.”
The case threw into relief the tangled issues surrounding the country’s long-running efforts to balance justice and reconciliation — the same issues that consumed years of post-apartheid hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the 1990s.
De Kock, 65, was arrested in 1994, and given an array of charges from murder to kidnapping related to his time as commander of a notorious unit based near Pretoria. The site became synonymous with the killing and torture of suspects in an underground war against black activists.
But he also testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after his conviction in 1996 on 89 charges including murder and fraud that earned him a sentence of two life terms plus 212 years.
De Kock was pardoned for some crimes — such as his part in blowing up a church headquarters in Johannesburg in 1988 — but not for others.
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