But the Congolese government has already rejected recommendations for a truth commission and an international tribunal.
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The former South African president insisted he had nothing to apologise to the Truth Commission for.
In 1997, at South Africa's Truth Commission, police confessed to the 1977 murder of Steve Biko.
It is easy to see why the truth commission might be suspected of partiality.
Many Colombians accept that while the conflict continues, a truth commission is impractical and that compromises were necessary.
The truth commission had no mandate to blame individuals, and its conclusions were to have no judicial implications.
Several other key witnesses, including the president of Chad's truth commission, Mahamat Hassan Abakar, are also expected to testify.
South Africa's Truth Commission has judged Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of President Mandela, to have been implicated in murders.
The appointment of a truth commission, as part of the deal between Mr Micheletti and Mr Zelaya, might help.
Those efforts -- and there are other examples of that -- cooperation with the Truth Commission in El Salvador, the U.N.
Uniquely, Argentina not only appointed a truth commission which identified killers and torturers, but jailed the leaders of the military juntas themselves.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, who was herself tortured and jailed under military rule, last year inaugurated a truth commission to investigate past human rights abuses.
Last year, a Peruvian truth commission officially blamed the Shining Path for 54% of the deaths and disappearances that ensued during the movement's years of violent insurgency.
The report of the Chilean truth commission, compiled in 1990 by General Pinochet's opponents after the return of democracy, describes the known circumstances of the 1, 261 deaths.
Coetzee was central to many secrets of the apartheid era, but in giving him amnesty for his crimes, the Truth Commission found that he had simply been following orders from higher-ranking security police commanders.
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What do we gain, first, by releasing the memos, but, secondly, what do we gain from indicting lawyers for their opinions -- if that is a possibility here -- or holding a so-called 'truth commission.
"I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid, " he said, referring to the panel established to help uncover past government errors and abuses and to foster amity.
But in truth the commission had grown rather too full of itself under Mr Santer's predecessor, Jacques Delors.
In the Cyclingnews interview, Armstrong said a truth and reconciliation commission should provide a complete amnesty.
He said the government was studying as a possible model South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
In any case, Mr Hun Sen wrongly interprets what South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was all about.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate crimes committed during the apartheid era in South Africa.
He then chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which investigated apartheid-era abuses and gave amnesty to those who confessed their involvement.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission cannot, under the terms of its mandate, subpoena documents or witnesses to investigate the claims.
The archbishop came to prominence for his work against apartheid in South Africa and later led its Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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When she testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, she arrived at the hearings in a white Mercedes limousine surrounded by bodyguards.
As South Africa prepares for the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report, opinion in the country seems as divided as ever.
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