The American 'Truth and Reconciliation Commission' Will Be Coming For You—If Trump Loses

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In South Africa, they called it a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” It was set up to deal with the horrific crimes of the Apartheid regime that countenanced murder, torture, and a denial of basic human rights.

Most of us had heard of the South African TRC, but what was it really like?

National Review:

South Africa’s TRC aimed for restorative justice, not retributive justice, which left quite a few victims of the system believing that some perpetrators escaped true accountability. South Africa’s commission “received 7,112 amnesty applications. Amnesty was granted in 849 cases and refused in 5,392 cases, while other applications were withdrawn.” The U.S. Institute of Peace concluded that “few trials were actually held. Several high-level members of the former police were convicted for the attempted murder of Reverend Frank Chikane in 1989. The trial of former minister of defense Magnus Malan and nineteen others ended in acquittal.” The commission called for reparations for victims of the Apartheid state, but only 21,000 people received the payments.

It came up far short of “reconciling” anyone to anything. They call it “restorative justice” but it did nothing of the sort. That’s because it was basically a punitive exercise designed to give emotional satisfaction to the victims. A real Truth and Reconciliation Commission would have been akin to the Nuremberg trials that were far more satisfactory in that they found hundreds of people guilty of terrible crimes, who were then sentenced to prison, and several were executed.

But here in America? Bill Clinton’s former Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently tweeted out a call for a TRC after Trump is (presumably) defeated.

 

 

 

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When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.

6:53 PM · Oct 17, 2020

 

 

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