Confronting Past Human Rights ViolationsRoutledge, 2004 M08 12 - 248 pages This book examines what makes accountability for previous abuses more or less possible for transitional regimes to achieve. It closely examines the other vital goals of such regimes against which accountability is often balanced. The options available are not simply prosecution or pardon, as the most heated polemics of the debate over transitional justice suggest, but a range of options, from complete amnesty through truth commissions and lustration or purification to prosecutions. The question, then, is not whether accountability can be achieved, but what degree of accountability can be achieved by a given country. |
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accountability Alfonsín amnesty Amnesty International apartheid Argentina Argentine Armed Forces argued armed forces August Author’s interview balance of forces civil Civil-Military Relations Colombo commission of inquiry Communist CONADEP conflict constitutional reform countries coup court crimes December Deepika Udagama defence Democracy democratic Derechos Humanos dirty war disappearances discussed doctrine elections ethnic FAES February FMLN former Fuerzas Armadas further government’s Hechos Honduras human rights abuses human rights violations Human Rights Watch Impunity institutional international factors issue Jaffna Klerk Kritz Latin America legislation LTTE lustration Menem military’s negotiations Nonetheless October ONUSAL opposition parties past abuses peace accords peacekeeping perpetrators police Policía political president prosecutions punishment rebels Reconciliation repression response Roht-Arriaza role Salvador Proceso Salvadoran security forces Seguridad significant Sinhalese society South Africa Soviet Sri Lanka Suzanne Daley Tamil threat trade-offs Transitional Justice transitional regimes trials truth commission victims York