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Links
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Desmond Tutu
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more interesting links in our all-encompassing link list as part of this
entire Main Subject Group. Links include those to the Nobel
Peace Prize website and to Peace Jam,
an international education project in which many former Nobel Peace
Prize laureates are involved incl. Desmond Tutu... to
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Truth and Reconciliation
Commission:
Following the defeat of apartheid in 1990,
South Africa found itself facing a new task: It was felt important to bring
about conciliation between the different races in South Africa's "melting pot".
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) under the leadership of Desmond
Tutu was tasked with leading the way in this process in 1995. The governing idea
was that without forgiveness there could be no future. So an attempt was made to
uncover the violence and human rights violations carried out during the
apartheid regime by inviting victims and perpetrators to make statements before
the Commission. Those making a full confession of their guilt and involvement in
the horrors were guaranteed an amnesty. The TRC website encompasses the
following:
 | Hearing of victims and perpetrators |
| The opinion of the ANC and National Party
about apartheid and the TRC |
| Newspaper articles and a detailed link list
to related websites |
| A conciliation register in which all South
Africans can express their feelings about apartheid and their hopes for the
future |
| The five-volume final report of the TRC,
which was published in 1998 following two years of work and which contains a
comprehensive preamble by Desmond Tutu. |
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This page features an
article entitled "Desmond Tutu's Long Crusade". You can also access
the BBC's archive on Tutu, apartheid and related subjects. The summaries of the
Truth and Reconciliation Committee's final report are particularly interesting.
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