Many of the human rights monitors have been jailed, tortured, killed.
But rights monitors have warned of increasing violence as campaigning began this year.
human rights monitors have been targeted by the police for arrest and harassment.
Thousands of people were killed, rights monitors said.
In comparison, human rights monitors say that many abuses here are less serious.
Human rights monitors say more than 7,000 people have been killed in Natal province since the fighting began.
That has created a pervasive sense of immunity among officers and soldiers, rights monitors say.
Yet human rights monitors say additional officials are not sufficient.
Diplomats and rights monitors say they doubt that he ordered the killings.
If human rights monitors were sent into the camps "they would be killed," he added.