Issued by: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
22 October 1997
STATEMENT BY ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU, CHAIRPERSON, TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission will tomorrow announce its proposals for providing reparations and rehabilitation for those who suffered from gross human rights violations between 1960 and 1994.
The proposls wre developed after the Commission listened to about 2,000 victims or survivors of violations who appeared at public hearings and examined about 10,000 further written statements made to the TRC.
The policy proposals to be announced tomorrow, which were developed by the Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee, will be one of the Commission's most important legacies for individuals and communities which suffered during the years covered by the TRC's mandate.
They have been discussed in preliminary form with the Government. However, they remain proposals at this stage and will be considered fully by Parliament and the Government when the Commission's final report is presented next year. Final decisions on the proposals rest with Parliament and Government.
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