Truth and reconciliation in South Africa and the Netherlands: compilation of papers presented at a seminar organised by the Kairos Foundation
Auteur/Redactie
Dorsman, Robert; Hans Hartman and Lieneke Noteboom-Kronemeijer (ed.)
Uitgave
Utrecht: SIM
Jaar
1999
Pagina's
78
Reeks
SIM Special; no. 23
ISBN
90-71383-05-9
Prijs:
4,55
Samenvatting
The seminar had two purposes. It was to assess the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in South Africa over the last two and a half years. Antjie Krog discusses the theme of the TRC and national unity, with particular attention to the responses of the Afrikaner community. Mahmood Mamdani discusses the mandate of the TRC and questions its - unduly narrow - interpretation by the TRC. The second purpose was to look how the Netherlands deals with its past of the Second World War and its colonial history in the East-Indies and to compare them with the South African expierence. Madelon de Keizer discusses the Dutch views of the nazi occupation and the holocaust, and Remco Raben the Dutch views on the colonial past in the Netherlands East Indies. In the appendix Michelle Parlevliet gives an overview of the background of the TRC.
The publication can be ordered at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, University of Utrecht
