The Forgiven Page #4

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we get a really kak president

and those are our bodies

buried there.

Will you still be digging us out

and crying about reconciliation?

I pray we will.

I believe we will.

Yeah,

but you can't guarantee it,

can you?

Thank you, officer.

Excuse me.

Listen, lady,

I am an officer of the law,

I can ask him what I'd like.

Excuse me, Your Grace,

I'd like to ask you

one more question.

You tell me,

what good is any of this?

What's... What's buried

should stay buried.

The only thing

that will stay buried

is anger

and resentment.

Don't think you don't need us

on your side,

that's all I'm saying.

There are no sides,

we are one nation now.

One nation?

Hell, we're all going to be

covered in gold

at the end of this rainbow.

Good day, officer.

I'm sorry, Your Grace.

It's okay. It's okay.

No, they've got nothing on us...

It's a klomp kak.

We just need to keep quiet,

keep our mouths shut.

Mosi, come.

So many secrets.

It's like a cancer.

Is it that evil creature

in Pollsmoor?

Don't let him inside,

you hear me?

If I'm the only person

that he's inside,

then it wouldn't be so bad.

Note to self then, Archbishop,

don't go back into Pollsmoor.

You hear me?

Vinnie, can you...

can you get Oliver

or one of our researchers

to look and to give me

information

on this secret operation

called "Hacksaw"?

Okay.

Huh?

Of course, sir.

Huh, do you?

What do you advise me?

Why Mogomat?

Yes, Benjamin's a b*tch.

You a wife.

He's the general's wife.

Please explain to us

the purpose of the SSA.

The SSA, Security police,

its purpose was to extract

information.

We were told to keep it clean,

but, uh...

Go on,

Mr. Xhosa.

Torture included

the punching of genitals

until blood came, and pus.

Electric rods in vaginas.

Sorry.

Does the name...

Mpho Morobe

mean anything to you?

No.

What about operation Hacksaw?

Mr. Chairman,

I must interrupt this witness.

I have here

a High Court order of sub judice

that forbids further testimony

of this witness.

Really?

Alex.

Colonel,

do you have nothing to say

to these families?

To David Lyon's family

or...

Simba Goniwe's family.

Families who have had no news

of their beloved son

or their adored husband

for years.

Do you have nothing to say

that would ease their pain?

That might give them...

closure?

I will say only this,

Archbishop,

we were fighting a war

against communism.

I was battling a threat

to us all.

Communist regimes,

harsh, repressive regimes,

intent on making Africa theirs.

Colonel,

look at the faces

of these families.

They are your own people!

Colonel, you cannot change

what is over

or where you have been,

but you can change

where you now go.

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