The defining moment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission varies from person to person. For some it will always be the moment the Truth Commission opened the floodgates of human suffering in East London in 1996. Or those rare moments of reconciliation, intimacy and even destruction between victim and perpetrator. For others, it is the pall of brutality and senselessness that has been exhumed with plastic-sealed skeletons and shattered bones from unmarked graves. Then there is the so-called "triumph of the truth" – the day that the architect of the Truth Commission, the ANC, failed in court to stop the release of the TRC’s findings. Angie Kapelianis asked the men and women tasked with exposing the truth and promoting reconciliation what defined the Truth Commission for them.

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windows of history - reflective and self-analytical flashbacks keep open rather than close the doors of the truth commission

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