1) What is the potential of truth commissions in helping people and communities recover from mass, systematic violence? What are the potential problems or limitations of truth commissions with respect to this goal? Address this set of questions by drawing on the work of three of the following authors: Wole Soyinka, Michael Ignatieff, Aryeh Neier, Edwidge Danticat, Primo Levi (“The Memory of the Offense?, Roger Cohen, or Gerald Prunier (in conversation with Fergal Keane). Your answer …showed first 75 words of 1057 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1057 total…He identified a window in the center of town, near the parliament building, where the fire seemed to originate. When he reached the apartment, he found an old lady living with her cats. He apologized for disturbing her. But the firing resumed the next day, and when Haris went up there again he found a stash of AK-47 assault rifles under the bed. After that, he began to understand that anything was possible.?(Cohen,p.118)