I would like briefly in this paper to look at some areas of tension between the proliferation of truth commissions and state-sponsored investigations into historical controversies and the challenge it poses for historians. My contention is that we are in danger of alliding the political good and nation-building which such inquiries indubitably achieve with their ability to count as unchallengeable records of historical worth.
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Hunt, T. (2004). Whose Truth? Objective Truth and a Challenge for History. In: Schabas, W., Darcy, S. (eds) Truth Commissions And Courts. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3237-0_8
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