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Amnesty or Impunity? A Preliminary Critique of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC).

Mamdani, Mahmood. "Amnesty or Impunity? A Preliminary Critique of the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC)." Diacritics 32, no. 3/4 (2002): 33-59.

Why this matters here

Mahmood Mamdani's critique of South Africa's TRC warns that individualized perpetrator-victim framing may miss structural oppression and redistribution. When Authority Is Misread cites this specific argument while resisting the false conclusion that all the commission's work should be dismissed.