A Call for Truth, Reconciliation, Grand Juries and the Bill of Rights
If you do a Google search for the words, Truth and Reconciliation , you find sites from around the world with stories of people seeking justice. Those stories can be ugly, telling of violence stretching back in time, carrying the suffering of people long dead. When you read the words on a site it is just words. You do not see the dead body of a small girl clutching her doll in the doorway of her family's broken home. You do not hear her mother crying. But each of those heinous acts is present in the minds of the people who survived, in the mind of the girl's grieving mother the girl is still present. Through the process of Truth and Reconciliation that child is remembered and her death solemnized, mourned, her human value and dignity affirmed. Those who loved her find healing. To demand truth affirms our humanity. As people, each of us is born with the need for truth; that transparency that makes sense from the events of our lives. Each of us has that same ne...