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National Commission on the Disappearance of PersonsArgentina, 1983 to 1984. Set up by Raúl Alfonsín's newly elected government, CONADEP gathered testimony from survivors and families about people taken by the military dictatorship and never seen again. Its report, Nunca más (Never Again), documented 8,960 disappeared people, and the true toll is…0 - 2
Rettig ReportChile, 1990 to 1991. Chile's National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, whose findings are known as the Rettig Report, reached conclusions on 2,279 cases of political execution and disappearance under Pinochet and left 641 more unresolved for lack of evidence. President Aylwin presented the…0 - 3
Truth Commission for El SalvadorEl Salvador, report published March 1993. Appointed through the United Nations after the civil war, the commission's report, From Madness to Hope, laid the great majority of the war's crimes at the door of state agents, paramilitary groups and death squads, with a smaller share attributed to the…0 - 4
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)South Africa, created by a 1995 act. The best-known commission of all, and the one that made "truth and reconciliation" a household phrase. Chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and covering violations from March 1960 to May 1994, it worked through three committees: human rights violations, reparation…0 - 5
Historical Clarification CommissionGuatemala, report published 1999. With commissioners appointed by the UN Secretary-General, the commission drew on the accounts of some 9,000 witnesses and survivors of the civil war, whose worst violence fell between 1981 and 1983.
Its conclusion went further than almost any commission before it:…0 - 6
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Peru)Peru, 2001 to 2003. Investigating the violence of 1980 to 2000, the commission estimated that 69,280 people died, and it held the Shining Path guerrillas responsible for 54 percent of the deaths reported to it.
Two findings changed how Peru saw the conflict. Three in four of the dead spoke Quechua…0 - 7
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Sierra Leone)Sierra Leone, 2002 to 2004. Promised in the 1999 Lomé peace accord between the government and the RUF rebels, the commission only began work in 2002 and submitted an extensive final report in October 2004.
What makes it worth studying is the company it kept. A separate Special Court for Sierra…0 - 8
Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East TimorTimor-Leste, covering the Indonesian occupation. The commission concluded that at least 102,800 Timorese died during the occupation, most of them from hunger and illness. Its starkest finding was that Indonesian security forces consciously decided to use the starvation of civilians as a weapon of…0 - 9
Equity and Reconciliation CommissionMorocco, 2004 to 2005. Unusually for a truth commission, it examined abuses committed under a monarchy that was still on the throne: the so-called Years of Lead, from independence in 1956 until the death of King Hassan II in 1999. King Mohammed VI ordered its report published.
It confirmed at…0 - 10
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Liberia)Liberia, final report 2009. No commission on this list was bolder towards a sitting government. It recommended that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and 51 others be barred from public office for 30 years for helping to form and finance warring factions, and that about 98 people it considered…0
