TRC Flashcards
Human Rights Violations Committee
- Listen to testimonies of victims in public hearings
Aim: reveal details of secret hrv under apartheid
Amnesty Comm
Asess perp and make dec to grant
Amnesty = pardon from prosection. It assumes you guilty
Reparation and Rehab Comm
Recommend form of reparations or interventions should make to help victims
Justice, forms
Justice= actions being fair
Retributive Justice= a form of punishment if a crime is comm. i.e Nuremburg trials
Restorative Justice: Crime=harm people therefore repair those harms
Tutu: Carrot and stick
Amnesty (s)
Pardon from punsishment
Blanket: Group is granted amnesty without conditions attached.
Conditionsal: Certian conditions must be met= acc or den
Catharsis
A difficult psycologic. process of releasing rep emotions
Aim: Find relief from testfying, watching = reconciliation?
Reconciliation
Healing of divisions.
Rainbow nation
We are all different but a single unit. Celebration of diversity.
Contextual Factors influencing the TRC
- Agreed as provsion in the Interim Consti: Comprimise Sol
- Victims satisf V.S Amnest: designed for middle sol
- Amnesty Contraversy
Amnesty contraversy
- Phil of forgiv. And practicality= no of crimes be too high for new giv to deal with
- Offered as incentive for ppl to come foward: gained truth (requirement of full disclosure)
- Legal: Mxenge, Biko
Victim heaings
1960s not onwards
Victim hearings vs amnesty application hearings
who worked on commities in trc
How long was the trc active?