the national center for truth and reconciliation was created by the truth and reconciliation commission in order to preserve. all of the materials that were collected under the mandate to the tier see. more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country of asked us to ensure that their statements and the other material that was collected finds their way into the hands of educators into the hands of researchers so we have a very important and critical role in continuing to expose the truth ensure canadians understand the truth of what's happened in this country and for the contribute ongoing understanding healing and reconciliation in this country. canadians no longer have an excuse though which i think is one of the most critical things about this process of truth or reconciliation. the i don't know or i didn't know really is no longer defensible. to stay. with the. if you see the. very. being made here in the. i'm very hopeful i'm still a bit scared as to what's happening and what could continue to happen i want to see action i want less talk and more actio

the national center for truth and reconciliation was created by the truth and reconciliation commission in order to preserve. all of the materials that were collected under the mandate to the t.r. see. more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country of asked us to ensure that their statements and the other material that was collected finds their way into the hands of educators into the hands of researchers so we have a very important and critical role in continuing to expose the truth ensure canadians understand the truth of what's happened in this country and for the contribute ongoing understanding healing and reconciliation in this country. canadians no longer have an excuse though which i think is one of the most critical things about this process of truth or reconciliation. the i don't know or i didn't know really is no longer defensible. as. with the. if you see the. very. thing many here in the. i'm very hopeful i'm still a bit scared as to what's happening and what could continue to happen i want to see action i want less talk and more action so

the national center for truth and reconciliation was created by the truth and reconciliation commission in order to preserve. all of the materials that were collected under the mandate to the tier see. more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country of asked us to ensure that their statements and the other material that was collected finds their way into the hands of educators into the hands of researchers so we have a very important and critical role in continuing to expose the truth ensure canadians understand the truth of what's happened in this country and for the contribute ongoing understanding healing and reconciliation in this country. canadians no longer have an excuse though which i think is one of the most critical things about this process of truth or reconciliation. be i don't know or i didn't know really is no longer defensible. just. go. with the. if you see the. very. being made here in the. i'm very hopeful i'm still a bit scared as to what's happening and what could continue to happen i want to see action i want less talk and more actio

it had turned into a truth and reconciliation commission as opposed to an inquest, really.g its sins. he said seamus mcloughlin was the officer commanding the ira it was a very electric moment. it had turned into a truth and reconciliation commission as opposed to an inquest, really. it was almost the ira confessing its sins. he said seamus mcloughlin was the officer commanding the ira in birmingham at the time, and was in charge of selecting targets. mick murray, he said, was one of the bombers. another member of the bombing team, he said, was michael hayes. and then, when asked about a james gavin, witness 0 said, "well, he was involved". this is going to strange coming from a family of the... ..of one of the people that were murdered, but i am grateful that witness 0 came out and announced the bombers‘ names. so, you know, itjust seems strange for me to be praising an ex—ira person, but, you know, it took some guts to do that. of the four men named, only michael hayes is still alive. a self—confessed ira bomb—maker, he claims he was questioned by police about the bombing

to work said there was the failure of the state to completely implement the truth and reconciliation commission's recommendations further south africa's increasing inequality and led to where we are now. i think that the failure to implement the recommendations of the t r c is very very serious indeed because it is what has led to the frustrations of many people in south africa today particularly young people because the mindset of those who were privileged under apartheid has in many instances not shifted at all and part of the reason for that is that there wasn't sufficient follow up from the t r c for example where in you know they were they were as amnesty for disclosure but in many instances full disclosure was not made in many instances people weren't actually brought to book so people haven't seen justice to have been done and that is why there is still a very very huge and deep level of resentment among south africans because they feel that there was who really benefited from apartheid have not actually. paid any price whatsoever and are unwilling to even compromise for example on standar

to work said there was the failure of the state to completely implement the truth and reconciliation commission's recommendations further south africa's increasing inequality and led to where we are now. i think that the failure to implement the recommendations of the t r c is very very serious indeed because it is what has led to the frustrations of many people in south africa today particularly young people because the mindset of those who were privileged under apartheid has in many instances not shifted at all and part of the reason for that is that there wasn't sufficient follow up from the t r c for example where in you know they were they were as amnesty for disclosure but in many instances full disclosure was not made in many instances people weren't actually brought to book so people haven't seen justice to have been done and that is why there is still a very very huge and deep level of resentment among south africans because they feel that those who really benefited from apartheid have not actually. paid any price whatsoever and are unwilling to even compromise for example on standards o

to work said there was the failure of the state to completely implement the truth and reconciliation commission's recommendations further south africa's increasing inequality and lead to where we are now. i think that the failure to implement the recommendations of the t r c is very very serious indeed because it is what has led to the frustrations of many people in south africa today particularly young people because the mindset of those who were privileged under apartheid has in many instances not shifted at all and part of the reason for that is that there wasn't sufficient follow up from the t r c for example where in you know they were they were as amnesty for disclosure but in many instances full disclosure was not made in many instances people weren't actually brought to book so people haven't seen justice to have been done and that is why there is still a very very huge and deep level of resentment among south africans because they feel that those who really benefited from apartheid have not actually. paid any price whatsoever and are unwilling to even compromise for example on standards

mandela was elected president of the party eight was ended the president then set up the truth and reconciliation commission chaired by archbishop desmond tutu which began holding hearings on human rights crimes. so let's bring in our guests for today joining me from johannesburg is a human rights activist with a special focus on african governments and development from london joseph chain a commentator on south african affairs and former columnist at new africa magazine and from cape town via skype solutia who's a researcher at the institute for global dialogue a south african think tank welcome to you all let's start with you ayesha have notes and mandela's dreams of a rainbow nation where everyone is equal where people are able to access their basic human economic and social rights and those dreams been realized over the last twenty five years. not as a rule there has been some movement in terms of the enrichment of a small number of black middle class and. elites in the economy but really you find that. this is still a very very divided society socially culturally politically and economically and that d

truth and the facts and powerful story. everyone must understand -- [applause] -- what is happening in this country. he said you may not be able to have truth and reconciliation commissionke you had in south africa. you may not be able to force the coming together that we are beginning to see in rwanda. you may not have as they did in germany forcing every single citizen, or almost every citizen, to go to those places that they would otherwise deny to address their complicity in the problem that they cratered in the deaths of millions, we need something like that here but i'll just be honest with you. given the composition of this country and the fact that we're still a white majority, and a far too many people who look like me are not going to voluntarily take that action. bryan stevenson says this has to happen at a community by community level. i'm all for sheila jackson lee is a bill that would set up a reparations commission. i was signed into law in a heartbeat but i want to make sure that in every community at every level come here in the commonwealth of virginia perhaps especially, that we ready to have that conversation person-to-person, eyeball to eyeball, jus

truth and the facts of the full story. everybody must understand what is happening in this country. he said, you may not be able to have a truth and reconciliation commissionike you had in south africa. you may not be able to force the coming together that we are beginning to see and rwanda. you may not have -- as they did in germany -- forcing every single citizen, almost every citizen -- to go to those places they would otherwise denied to address their complicity in the problem they created in the deaths of millions. we need something like that here, but i'll just be honest with you. given the composition of this country and the fact that we are still a white majority and far to me people who look like me are going to voluntarily take that action -- brian stephenson said this has to happen at a community by community level. i am all for sheila jackson that was of a reparations commission. i would find that into law in a heartbeat. but i want to make sure in every community, at every level, here in the commonwealth of virginia, perhaps, we are able to have a conversation eyeball to eyeball just like we are in this room. i am convinced if we do that, we w

of missing persons but they really haven't made progress on things like setting up a truth and reconciliation commissioning up a process for repparations for people killed and most importantly setting up a process of accountability for the thousands of people who were killed at the end of the war. many of them innocent civilians. so the ethnic tammels still have a lot of grievances that remain -- and a lot of questions that remain unanswered and now these latest attacks really open a whole new front for the reconciliation process. so not just between tammels and sinna lease but between christians and muslims. so it does underline the need for a thoughtful and credible reconciliation process. and to date the u.s. -- sorry the sri lanka government has been very divided and so it is going to be a very tall task for them. but i hope they embrace it. >> appreciate that final point. especially ambassador robert blake. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> here is a question for you today. should prisoners be allowed to vote? the question suddenly at the center of debate among 2020 candidates. w

when you talk about it it reminds -- it harkens back in my mind to the truth and reconciliation commissionsich they didn't have enough room in the prisons in rwanda for the people who committed genocide. it was village restoration. let's take a look at a clip. >> if my actions started the cycle of violence. >> he took the love and what my life could have been like. i want him to look me in the face and tell me why he killed my mother. >> there's no way that you could actually prepare for something like this. >> this is the last piece of that puzzle from a lifetime of what if. >> i mean, this is as real and human as it gets, people just face to face. what happened? i mean, what -- >> you know, it's interesting. of the eight episodes, and two of them they do not get to a warm and fuzz zi place, the pain of the children who were hurt or lost was too great. they still got information they hadn't had. they got to ask questions. what happened? that was somewhat healing. but in three of the eight, anderson, they got to a point where they actually successfully went to the parole board and got the p

i think of this in the way that i think of the truth and reconciliation commission of south africa.rocess that needs to happen. so it's important that we get it right with a group of people from throughout the country that are well respected in their communities to make that kind of recommendation, not that it's the idea of just one person. >> let me jump in here. what would it look like? economists who study reparation say to adequately address slavery would cost $20 million. would americans be okay with that price tag? >> americans would be okay with acknowledgment, first of all an apology for what happened. and some sort of directed acknowledgment for the pain that was caused. you know, the amount, what that would look like, i think that would be the role of the commission to make a recommendation on. i don't think that that can come from one individual because it needs to be about healing as a country, not only one prescription for what we should do. >> we'll be back with more from cnn's democratic presidential town hall with secretary julian castro. don't go anywhere. pardon th

congressman lee will introduce a bill, before the truth and recreate the reconciliation commission. e commission will take the lead in racial healing, and building trust within different groups. >>> a new temporary holding facility will be opening next week, customs and border action ran out of money, the facility is needed to process a growing number of migrants entering the united states. local advocates and officials criticize them for housing migrants in an open air camp underneath a bridge. the new facility is expected to open on wednesday. >>> pope francis is donating half a million dollars to help migrants in mexico, the money was donated to the church and will be distributed to more than two dozen product projects. much of the aide is expected to help 75,000 people who arrived in mexico last year in six migrant caravans. the pope indirectly criticized the border wall project earlier this month. >>> beto o'rourke is making a campaign stop in san francisco this morning, you will be speaking at the irish cultural center at 45th avenue and sunset. doors open at 11:30. beto o'rour