Truth Commissions

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  1. 4. Public sessions where victims or witnesses testify
  2. 6. Leader who did not cooperate with The Investigative Commission on the Situation of 'Disappeared' People
  3. 8. Material Compensation for Victims
  4. 9. Type of personal truth gathered from individual stories
  5. 10. Evidence given by victims, witnesses, and perpetrators
  6. 13. Country whose Truth and Reconciliation Commission had unprecedented powers
  7. 16. Chilean dictator whose human rights abuses were probed by a national truth commission
  8. 17. What commissions release after hearings conclude
  9. 19. The panel members who lead the inquiry
  10. 20. Truth about collective experiences of violence
  11. 21. To record abuses for the historical record
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  1. 1. What a commission's final report does
  2. 2. What Truth Commissions report on to create a big picture of human rights violations
  3. 3. A person who can provide testimony
  4. 5. One of the four kinds of truth commissions seek
  5. 7. Establishing responsibility, if not always prosecution
  6. 11. Archbishop who chaired the South African TRC
  7. 12. What the commission seeks to establish
  8. 14. A pardon often conditional on full testimony in a Truth Commission
  9. 15. General goal of Truth Commissions
  10. 17. Healing-focused truth emphasizing reconciliation
  11. 18. Group of people that Truth Commissions most directly engage with