Truth Commissions in Post-Communism: The Overlooked Solution?
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Truth Commissions in Post-Communism: The Overlooked Solution?
Despite their increased popularity in Latin America, Africa and Asia, truth commissions have remained an overlooked solution to coming to terms with the recent human rights abuses perpetrated in communist Europe. Since the start of the democratization process in the early 1990s, only Germany, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Romania have employed truth commissions as meth...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Open Political Science Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1874-9496
DOI: 10.2174/1874949600902010001