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    Apartheid: ancient, past and present
    (1999-06-11T11:14:30Z) Bathish, Nisreen; Löwstedt, Anthony, 1961-
    South Africa's National Party, which ruled the country from 1948 until 1994, itself coined the term apartheid to veil or mask the oppressive elements of its policies and practices. The concept of separateness in itself does not imply any group being favored over any other Segregation per se of ethnic entities, after all, was supported by some South African Blacks. Now in common usage all over the world, apartheid has drifted away from its original lexical meaning to denote physically repressive, economically exploitative and ideologically racist or ethnicist segregation. This paper focuses on three apartheid societies, Graeco-Roman Egypt, South Africa and Israel, and offers conceptual reflections on possible frameworks for future Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, especially with regard to present day Israel.
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    Improving human rights through constitutionalism and socio-economic reforms in Ethiopia
    (1999-02-12T08:55:20Z) Abraham, Kinfe
    In this paper we will examine the atrocities committed by the Derg, the attempts made by EPRDF to bring to justice those government officials who were responsible for human rights violations, and the legislative reforms which have led to era of Constitutionalism.
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    The politics of memory and forgetting after Auschwitz and apartheid
    (1999-06-11T10:15:02Z) Duvenage, Pieter
    This article focuses on the politics of memory and forgetting after Auschwitz and apartheid. In the first two sections Habermas's critical contribution to the German Historikerstreit is discussed. Important in this regard is the moral dimension of our relation to the past. In the next two sections the emphasis shifts to South Africa and more specifically the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The article ends with a general discussion of the dilemma of historical "truth" and representation in contemporary societies.