Guatemala, Central America and Truth Commissions:

Look at the site below for "Truth Commissions" and at least ONE of the the other sites, either about Guatemala and Central America or Argentina. Then post your answer to the following questions on the Blackboard "Discussion Board:" To what extent do you rbelieve that the healing process for a country that has gone through serious human rights abuses needs a "Truth Commission?" is it enough to know what happened? or do the guilty parties need to be punished?

Truth Commissions: http://www.hrschool.org/doc/mainfile.php/lesson34/40/

Human Rights in Central America and Mexico: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/shows/mexico/imap.html

Jackson Day’s web page on Guatemala: (with many links) http://www.geocities.com/~virtualtruth/guatemal.htm

“Nunca Mas” Report of Argentina’s Truth Commission (Argentina): http://www.nuncamas.org/english/library/nevagain/nevagain_000.htm

Argentina (From web site of United States Institute of Peace)

The 16-member National Commission on the Disappeared was created on December 16, 1983 by then-President Raul Alfonsin. The ten non-legislative members were writer Ernesto Sabato, Roman Catholic Bishop Jaime de Nevares, Rabbi Marshall Meyer, journalist Magdalena Ruiz Guinazu, Methodist Bishop Carlos T. Gattinoni, Ricardo Colombres, Rene Favarolo, Hilario Fernandez Long, Gregorio Klimovsky, and Eduardo Rabossi. Legislators Santiago Marcelino Lopez, Hugo Diogenes Piucill and Horacio Hugo Huarte sat on the commission. The commission’s report on 9,000 disappearances during the 1976-1983 military rule, issued on September 20, 1984, was commercially published under the title of Nunca Mas: Informe de la Comision Nacional sobre la Desaparicion de Personas. Editions of the English language translation of Nunca Mas were published by Faber and Faber and by Farar, Strauss & Giroux in 1986.