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A Truth and Reconciliation Commission for China

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Apr 06, 2009
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A prominent human rights activist in Beijing has proposed that China set up a South Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), to seal the scars left by the military crackdown in June 1989.

It is the best idea of how to deal with the most sensitive anniversary this year of an event that left up to 3,000 people dead, sent thousands to prison,…

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