A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. They are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship.
As government reports, they can provide proof against historical revisionism of state terrorism and other crimes and human rights abuses. Truth commissions are sometimes criticised for allowing crimes to go unpunished, and creating impunity for serious human rights abusers. Their roles and abilities in this respect depend on their mandates, which vary widely.
One of the difficult issues that has arisen over the role of truth commissions in transitional societies, has centered on what should be the relationship between truth commissions and criminal prosecutions.
The Truth Commission debuted in the USWA, where Recon and Kurrgan (then known simply as The Interrogator) captured the USWA Tag Team Championship and Tank briefly captured the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship. Their manager, the Commandant, was an actor who had met Bret Hart while Hart was filming in South Africa. Hart recommended him to the WWF as a manager for the Truth Commission.
Upon moving to the WWF, the Commandant was later replaced by Commissioner member The Jackyl because the WWF wanted someone in the role who could participate physically in the matches. Tank departed from the WWF after a couple of matches. The Interrogator changed his name to Kurrgan was pushed as a monster heel while Recon and Sniper competed as a tag team. Incidentally, Jackyl was initially more interested in being a wrestler than the group's manager, but WWF bookerVince McMahon convinced him to cut promos on behalf of the Truth Commission because of his talent for it. Jackyl even fought in a match in a house show as the General losing to Jim Neidhart.
The Commission was established by the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords that brought the civil war to an end. Article 2 of the Accords stipulates, "The Commission shall have the task of investigating serious acts of violence that have occurred since 1980 and whose impact on society urgently demands that the public should know the truth".
The Commission was charged with clarifying and putting an end to any indication of impunity on the part of officers of the armed forces, as explained in Article 5 of the Chapultepec Peace Agreement: "acts of this nature, regardless of the sector to which their perpetrators belong, must be the object of exemplary action by the law courts so that the punishment prescribed by law is meted out to those found responsible".
(Two pretentious expressions in one sentence? Monsieur, watch out for hubris.) Thiel wants large-scale declassifications and a truth-and-reconciliation commission, in the model of South Africa’s reckoning with apartheid.
(Two pretentious expressions in one sentence? Monsieur, watch out for hubris.) Thiel wants large-scale declassifications and a truth-and-reconciliation commission, in the model of South Africa’s reckoning with apartheid.
Trump made the announcement Tuesday on his social media platform, Truth Social ...Brendan Carr, Chairman of the FederalCommunicationsCommission ... Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC’s general counsel.
In 2023, three Wasatch County taxpayers filed a lawsuit against the county assessor and State Tax Commission, exposing a troubling pattern of noncompliance with state law. Their investigation revealed a startling truth.
One model could be the post-apartheid Truth and ReconciliationCommission in South Africa, which heard testimony from victims and perpetrators of rights violations, offered reparations to victims, and in some cases granted amnesties.
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Trump responded early Tuesday with a post on his Truth Social platform, claiming he was "totally innocent" and calling Smith "a lamebrain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the Election." ... The commission oversees U.S.
“After two decades of authoritarian rule, some transitional justice measures were taken but progress in implementing the recommendations of the national truth commission has been slow, and concerns ...
As part of this push, it is calling for meaningful decision-making powers, independence from government and the ability to implement key recommendations from the state’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry, the Yoorrook JusticeCommission.
York News-Times
15 Jan 2025
York News-Times
15 Jan 2025