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It i
s not in the interests of the country to run Nuremberg-type
trials on outstanding issues from the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC), the African National Congress said on
Monday.
"The ANC wishes (to find) lasting solutions" said party spokesman
Smuts Ngonyama in a statement in Johannesburg.
"It is not in the interests of the country that we run anything
akin to Nuremberg-type trials".
He said the ANC wanted to discuss the TRC report with all
concerned.
Ngonyama was responding to concerns expressed to his party by the
New National Party.
The NNP had said outstanding matters from the TRC report could end
up dividing the nation by resulting in a spate of Nuremberg-type
trials.
The Nuremberg Trials occurred at the end of the Second world war,
when Nazi war criminals were brought before an international
tribunal. The trials were the first of their kind, and provoked
much debate.
Many criticised them for retroactively criminalising actions that
had been legal, even required under orders, at the time they
occurred.
The principals of Nuremberg were cited by US attorney Michael
Hausfeld last year, when he lodged the so-called apartheid lawsuit
against multinational companies which did business in apartheid
South Africa - Sapa.
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