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Members of the ANC give testimony in Cape Town about human rights abuses committed during apartheid. (File photograph by Gallo Images/ Oryx Media Archive).
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU

Truth commissions are lessons for societies in transition

South Africa and Colombia attempted to deal with a violent past through telling truths about human rights violations – even if both processes faltered one some measures

  • John Bonilla-Aranzales
6 min read