• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Sounds like a bit like post-apartheid South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where white farmers were invited to talk about all the horrific things they had done, in exchange for a pardon with no repercussions.

    In theory, “healing” the country by exposing the crimes and extending the olive branch of forgiveness, but in reality…

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      Not even that much - white plantation owners actively denied their atrocities and widely attempted to cover them up, with no pressure from the government to so much as admit their horrors.