The Provocations of amnesty: Memory, justice and impunity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864866151 ISBN 13: 9780864866158

Publisher: David Philip Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

South Africa's amnesty was a unique experiment. A path that lay 'between a Nuremberg option and total amnesia,' the amnesty process was designed in the heat of a remarkable and complex transition to constitutional democracy. Perpetrators from all sides of the conflict were asked to reveal what they did and why. According to the TRC, this equation of truth for amnesty promised not forgetting or impunity, but an important picture of the past - stories and testimony that could help the nation to 'sharpen its moral conscience and to ensure that, never, never again, will it gradually atrophy to the point where personal responsibility is abdicated.' Amnesty's challenge was to 'develop public awareness, to keep the memories alive, not only of gross violations of human rights, but of everyday life under apartheid.'

Edition details

• Publisher: David Philip Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0864866151
• ISBN 13: 9780864866158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Doxtader E., Villa-Vicencio C.