Source: (2002) Race & Class. 44(1); 33-59.
“The Guatemalan experience has been a mixed one. While the report
was enthusiastically received by civil society, it is hard to deny that, in
practical terms, much of the fruit has withered on the political vine. The
Guatemalan truth commission did not see itself as the embodiment of
reconciliation but as an instrument in reconstruction. The truth it told
was crucial, but only part of the process. The disappointing, if foreseeable,
reactions of those who rejected the CHC’s conclusions and
recommendations vindicate the realism shown by the commission.” (excerpt)
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