One year later, despite professionally and objectively evidenced subjection to various forms of torture, and notwithstanding directives of national law courts and advice of international investigations, they have suffered neither the relief of being under open arrest while awaiting prosecution of their indictments, nor given their freedom, nor speedily brought to court in a transparent, unbiased and competent jurisdiction so that justice can be served.
The Hon. Minister of Defence and National Security Tseliso Mokhosi dismisses casually the heart-rending cry of our parents for unrequited and complete justice that appears so to all dispassionate and disinterested onlookers; and labels it a cruel and self-serving, profiteering crusade by their legal representatives to syphon maximum cash from their clients by protracting the cases. To our awareness, our parents’ core demand for a transparent course of justice is that they be prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced by persons other than the named members of their court martial with whom they had adversarial relations.
