Truth commission
INDEPENDENT COMMISSION TASKED WITH DISCOVERING PAST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BY A GOVERNMENT. STARTING IN LATIN AMERICA IN THE 1980S, SEVERAL SUCH COMMISSIONS WERE INITIATED WORLDWIDE FROM THE 1990S
Truth and reconciliation; Truth and Reconciliation; Truth comission; Truth Commission; Truth commissions; Truth and Reconcilation; Truth telling; Truth-telling; Truth telling in Australia; Truth-telling in Australia; Truth and justice commission; Truth and reconciliation commission; Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
A truth commission, also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission, is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state actors also), in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. Truth commissions are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship marked by human rights abuses.