Truth and reconciliation

Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa (1998). Chemical and Biological Warfare Hearings. Available http //www.totse.com/en/politics/the world beyond the usa/camera.html. 

In Ubuntu, inclusion is not something to be achieved ... it simply is the way. In his book about South Africa s Truth and Reconciliation Council, Prime Minister Desmond Tutu defined the concept of Ubuntu as community members understanding that they belong in a greater whole and accepting that when others are diminished, harmed, or oppressed they, too, suffer. ... 

Because South Africa s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) promised the South African Defense Minister not to divulge information that could compromise national security, more detailed information about South African chemical weapons has not yet been made available. 

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa), http //www.doj.gov.za/trc. 

With this handbook of free scientific expression of opinion regarding the historiography of the Holocaust, I wish to extend a general invitation to an open discussion of these matters among equals, despite - or because of - the fact that, unlike most other publications on this topic, the position taken here is a controversial one. For the sake of such a discussion it is imperative that neither party disputes the other s honesty and desire for reconciliation. The first and foremost goal of this discussion is the joint and sincere search for truth, in order to contribute to a reconciliation between Jews and Germans, which may perhaps result in a realization of my dream of a revival of the Ger-man-Jewish symbiosis. 

Rush s generation was torn between the assertions of the Declaration of Independence and the realities of Negro slavery. The heart of the Declaration was the self-evident truth. . . that all men are created equal. The heart of slavery was the deep-seated belief that the Negro is racially inferior to the white man. Americans ached in their souls for a reconciliation of this bitter contradiction. 

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