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Paul van Zyl
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Paul van Zyl grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era and served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 to 1998.
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Truth commissions have a capacity to be profoundly transformative.”
It would be impossible to escape the past and it would be unwise to sweep it under the carpet.
In almost all transitional justice scenarios, you cannot punish more than a tiny fraction of those people responsible for gross violations of human rights.
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