Yeah it really depends on positional accountability from an individuals perspective.
personally i can imagine myself as a murderer just fine, circumstance dependant so i have no problem forgiving another,
and its not a matter of forgiving someone who turned about and said here i was wrong please forgive me,
its that he fought killed, murdered.
then people realised that despite the violent uprising, it wasnt the terrorists that were wrong it was the government and apartheid regime.
Quite unlike islamic extremists, and therefore quite unlike any modern terrorists.
he fought and terrorised, because basic human rights were not given to his people.
not for religion
not for land
Phil