Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up in 2002 to document the human rights abuses committed during the war and foster healing.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping something had been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled.

我的那些可能遭受人们讥笑嘲讽的快乐，那些早已被人们遗弃我却为之哭泣的人啊，如今你们都死去了吧，我想说的是那些依然被掩藏的事实，战争中被蒸馏掉的怜悯。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.

莱特自己描述了,自传写作的艰辛，他如是说：,“我发现说真话是世界上最难的事，比参加战争难，比参加革命难，如果尝试写自传。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

"It has become increasingly clear that Tony Blair misled parliament on more than one occasion and I think that MPs were invited to make their own judgment on the merits of the case for war and they were entitled to do so on the truth and it looks very much as though that the truth was withheld from parliament and many MPs may well have made a different decision if they had had the full unvarnished truth,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.13