Special Report Transcript Episode 80, Section 7, Time 48:54

In the same as South Africans think their problems are unique; they tend to think our Truth Commission is also unique. In fact there have been at least eight Truth Commissions in recent years in places like Uganda, El Salvador, Argentina, Chile, Haiti, Chad and Sri Lanka. Still, South Africa’s Truth Commission is the biggest and most far reaching one so far. It has had the effect that many nations who had come through times of repression and turmoil are now looking at establishing Truth Commissions with our Commission as a model. The former Dutch colony in South America, Surinam, is about to launch a Truth Commission. And there’s debate in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda around the same issue. Probably the most prominent expert on Truth Commissions worldwide is a young American academic and researcher, Priscilla Hayner.

Notes: Max du Preez

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