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already seen) several ups and downs, you can trust that Tunisians won ‟ t want to return to dictatorship.
- One condition must be met, however. This condition is, that the past must be public, archives must be open, so the voters can know the past of each political contester. Old regime loyalists, hiding their past and their sins, should not appeal for the support of voters. On the other hand, should voters be aware who did what, and vote in full command of knowledge, then it is a decision of the citizens that must be respected by all democrats. Truth and reconciliation process No country in the world can afford that one part of the society crowds out the other one. When they were in power, they crowded out democrats, not democrats are back to politics and now they crowd out the former ones? There must be a reconciliation process that brings peace and cohabitation into the society. Reconciliation, however, goes hand in hand with truth process. No reconciliation can become successful without genuine public discussions about the past, and on the other way around: Revealing the past makes sense only, if it does not serve a mere reckoning, but if it serves peace and reconciliation. There are many failures could have been seen is this process was onesided, and we could also eyewitness gorgeous success stories like Spain or South Africa, where the purpose of the exercise has been and continues to be a political situation that different people may think very different things about the future, but non of the puts into question that they all belong to the same political community that is called a nation.
WINDS OF CHANGE AND JUSTICE IN TUNISIA, A COUNTRY ALSO IN TRANSITION
BY HANNEKE GEDERBLOM-LANKHOUT
Dear participants in this discussion of today on the topic:“ justice in countries in transition”. Justice is not only about a justice system. It is also about how laws are being formulated, about their implementation and the ways they are to be enforced.