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South Africa

Paul van Zyl grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era and served as the Executive Secretary of South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995 to 1998.

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In almost all transitional justice scenarios, you cannot punish more than a tiny fraction of those people responsible for gross violations of human rights.

Truth commissions have a capacity to be profoundly transformative.”

It would be impossible to escape the past and it would be unwise to sweep it under the carpet.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul van Zyl (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.