..., a time open to ethical inquiry about the time before. The search for the postapartheid ethical is the project of Afrikaner writer Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull, a poetically journalistic account of the South African Truth and Recon- ciliation Commission (TRC) from 1996 to 1998.1 Adapted...

..., even as they leave aside issues of social and economic rights. The current infatuation with and optimism about truth commissions has been nowhere more evident than in the South African case. Yet the Truth and Rec- onciliation Commission (TRC) and the numerous analyses of it done at the time...

..., execution style. The police version differed from these testimonies that attested to the brutality and callousness of the security personnel. Ten years later, Zenzile Khoisan, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) officer in charge of the investigation, wrote in his report to the head...

... and struggle, which, as mentioned above, the early theorists of truth commissions felt would not only reproduce the conflict but would also open the door to justification. One notable exception to this occurred in South Africa, where the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) did admit...

... Center for Transitional Justice and encouraged by national human rights groups, the Peruvian CVR was able to build on and to go beyond other truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs). Despite having the benefit of other countries’ experiences with truth commissions, the CVR faced similar...

... by the Truth and Reconciliation Comission (TRC), available at www.doj.gov.za/trc/hrvtrans/index.htm (accessed May 1, 2006), and the seven-volume report issued by the TRC. Volume 6, issued in 2003, is available at www.info.gov.za/ otherdocs/2003/trc (accessed May 1, 2006). 14. Correlli...

... of knowledge of these events within the ANC at the time of the conference remains unclear and the extent of the violations remains a matter of debate. However, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) found that although there were gross human rights abuses in ANC prisons and camps, these were...

... – 1997 (Johannesburg: South Africa, 1997), 600. 26. See chapter 4 in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report, vol. 2 (1998), www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/finalreport /Volume%202.pdf. 190   Radical History Review 27...