And I think we in South Africa have not done badly; at least that is what the rest of the world seems to think of our transformation and the TRC process. Because an “eye for an eye” can never work when communities are in conflict – reprisal leads to a counter-reprisal in the sort of blood spiral we are seeing in the Middle East.
我们不能放弃对任何人进行拯救。如果人真的无法改变，一日杀人终身嗜血，那么“真理与和解委员会” 也就失去了存在的价值。这个组织之所以存在，就因为我们相信即使是最顽固的种族主义分子也存在改造的可能性。而且我认为南非在这方面做得不坏，至少世界其它国家对我们的改造与和解努力都比较认同。因为“以眼还眼”在战争中永远不会发挥作用，报复之后是反报复，会使我们陷入中东那样的血腥循环而无力自拔。