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Meanings of truth commission in English

Spanish
comisión para la verdad y la reconciliación
Catalan
comissió de la veritat i la reconciliació

Independent commission tasked with discovering past crimes against humanity by a government.

comisión para la verdad y la reconciliación
Usage of truth commission in English
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The truth commission has no power to punish those responsible or recommend prosecution.
Reuters
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The truth commission proposal would be released next Monday, he said.
Reuters
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He has a truth commission that will be stood up.
Reuters
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Even in private conversations with the truth commission, Rousseff has never mentioned her own past.
Reuters
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The truth commission pact was struck down by an Argentine court and never ratified by Iran.
Reuters
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As one political scientist put it, what the truth commission did was convert knowledge into acknowledgment.
The Guardian
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In 2013, Fernandez tried to form a " truth commission" with Iran to investigate jointly.
Reuters
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A truth commission last year described the state-run schools as a tool of "cultural genocide".
The Guardian
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Neither the attorney general's office nor representatives of a national truth commission responded to requests for comment.
Reuters
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Victims' groups have called for an international independent truth commission to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
The Irish Times
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But leaders of the truth commission said the 1979 amnesty law should not apply to crimes against humanity.
Reuters
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The truth commission has yet to decide whether to grant Mr Williamson amnesty for those and other killings.
The Guardian
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She did not say who was, though courts and a truth commission have blamed the army and her father.
Reuters
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A United Nations-backed " truth commission" found that the vast majority of abuses were committed by the army.
Reuters
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The New York-based author, a lawyer at Human Rights Watch, served on Guatemala's post-conflict truth commission in the 1990s.
The Guardian
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East Timor and Indonesia set up a truth commission to probe the bloody events surrounding the 1999 independence vote.
Reuters