Human Rights Violation in Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog

In the book Country of My Skull, the author Antjie Krog uncovers the countless human rights violations that occurred during the South African Apartheid. The South African Apartheid, meaning separate or apart, was a system of racial motivated segregation in South Africa. Under this corrupt system of racial segregation, the minority group of South Africa or the White Afrikaners unjustly dominated the majority group, the black South Africans. During this period Black South Africans were unjustly subjected to punishments such as torture, kidnapping, murder, and other horrifying gross violations of human rights. However, after the abolition of the apartheid was the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Truth and†¦show more content†¦This memoir was in a way Krog’s genuine apology for benefiting from a system that caused so much bloodshed and stripped the humanity from so many thousands of people. Through her reporting of the TRC testimonies, and the publ ishing of her book she allowed the rest of the world to be informed of the terrible crimes that had taken place, as well as the government and political involvement in the creation of this racial segregation. In her memoir Country of My Skull, while reporting on the direct testimonies of both the victims and perpetrators, Antjie Krog actively emphasizes her strong feelings of guilt, shame, and the emotional weight or burden she carries for benefitting from such a corrupt system. By revealing the true nature of the white South Africans responsible for the apartheid, Krog in a way denounces her race of being a white South African and asks to be accepted into a unified South Africa by the Black South Africans. Although Krog is herself, a white South African, this memoir was her harsh and powerful realization of the true horrors of the South African Apartheid. For Krog personally, she had to report of each of the TRC testimonies and was therefore unable to both claim ignorance to the apartheid crimes, and was forced to truly hear the incredible stories of those who endured such terrible human rights violations. For that reason, this memoir