South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission highly distinguished, controversial and also the most innovative mechanisms used by a state deprecative to provide a form of reverence for past perpetrators of human rights abuse.* This article will provide an extensive outlook on the perspective of victims of repression, this document will analyse and article all the advantages it will critically analyse all the advantages and disadvantages in relation to the TRC's main primary process: the amnesty inquiries, the victims’ hearings and the formulation of its policies on restoration and recovery. This interpretation will also provide beneficial notes on the past and pinpoint some important and necessary recommendations for how the formation and application of future truth commissions can maximise the achievement and success to those who have so been failed to in the past within the attempts of establishing these transitions. Those who have been victims of corpulent human rights abuse.
Truth commissions can be easily defined as “bodies set up to investigate a past history of violations of human rights in a particular country – which can include violations by the military or other government forces or armed opposition forces.” (Hayner 1994: 558)1 they are “officially sanctioned, temporary, non-judicial investigative bodies ... granted a relatively short period for statement-taking, investigations, research and public hearings, before completing their work with a final public report. Mandates of the commission were principally in charge of examining and documenting all the incidents that had occurred during the 1960's and in one of the first elections of the democratic state in 1994. They fundamentally consisted of three separate committees:
1. The Human Rights Violations Committee (HRVC)– who conducted interviews and documented all the stories and horrendous experiences of the apartheid victims who until this time, had not been given this opportunity to be
Truth commissions can be easily defined as “bodies set up to investigate a past history of violations of human rights in a particular country – which can include violations by the military or other government forces or armed opposition forces.” (Hayner 1994: 558)1 they are “officially sanctioned, temporary, non-judicial investigative bodies ... granted a relatively short period for statement-taking, investigations, research and public hearings, before completing their work with a final public report. Mandates of the commission were principally in charge of examining and documenting all the incidents that had occurred during the 1960's and in one of the first elections of the democratic state in 1994. They fundamentally consisted of three separate committees:
1. The Human Rights Violations Committee (HRVC)– who conducted interviews and documented all the stories and horrendous experiences of the apartheid victims who until this time, had not been given this opportunity to be