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When a system has gone bad, mass prosecution of individuals is, for many reasons, a poor remedy.

A truth and reconciliation commission would be more appropriate:

A truth commission or truth and reconciliation commission is a commission tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government, in the hope of resolving conflict left over from the past. They are, under various names, occasionally set up by states emerging from periods of internal unrest, civil war, or dictatorship.


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by technopolitical on Sat Mar 1st, 2008 at 01:22:26 AM EST
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