The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), beginning in 1995, held hearings for those that participated in the defense of the system of apartheid revealing numerous acts of brutal violence and human rights violations. Most of the perpetrators were police and military personnel working under the guise of death squads, agencies established in the late 1960s to deal with any supporters of the rising anti-apartheid movement. Though the accounts varied from highly detailed and graphic to unilluminating and vague, all revealed horrendous acts of violence that often included assassination. The TRC concluded there were countless motives used by the perpetrators in order to perform the acts of violence: many held the mentality that the state was “at war” requiring unconventional methods in order to win, others claimed to be following orders in order to fight communism as this symbol was used to justify the current system of racial segregation, and the rest were influenced by the political motives of the state.[1]