'Truth'-without-justice-and-reconciliation: a study of the passivity of the Nigerian Government to the confession of the 'Abacha boys' to state terrorism.

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dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Isaac Olawale
dc.date.accessioned1943-02-25T13:52:21Z
dc.date.available1943-02-25T13:52:21Z
dc.date.issued1943-02-25T13:52:21Z
dc.descriptionPaper presented at the University of Witwaterstrand History Workshop on "The TRC: Commissioning the Past", Johannesburg, 1l-14June 1999.en_US
dc.description.abstractHuman tights abuses are a problem.The need to discourage this ugly phenomenon and promote reconciliation between the perpetrators and victims of human tights abuses has culminated in the establishment of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in some parts of the world. The most important of such commissions to be established in Africa was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which was established in South Africa by Act No. 34 of 1995. Since June 1998, some Nigerians have been asking that their country should join the league of nations that have dealt with their past human rights problems using the path of TRC. The call is made necessary by the abuses that took place in Nigeria between 1993 and 1998. This was the period when General Sani Abacha gave a "bad name" to all the national questions besetting Nigeria since the 1960s: ethnic chauvinism, purposeless leadership, electoral fraud, lack of integrity, corruption, mediocrity, violation of human rights etc.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/7565
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWits History Workshop paper;6
dc.subjectReconciliation, Nigeriaen_US
dc.subjectTruth and Reconciliation Commissionen_US
dc.subjectHuman rights abusesen_US
dc.subjectAbacha, Sani, 1943-1988en_US
dc.title'Truth'-without-justice-and-reconciliation: a study of the passivity of the Nigerian Government to the confession of the 'Abacha boys' to state terrorism.en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
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