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Fri 02 Feb 2010Reticence about questioning the North's past 'must be challenged'
THE RETICENCE concerning the way the past should be approached in Northern Ireland must be challenged, Kader Asmal, a former minister in South Africa and former head of the Irish anti-apartheid movement, said last night.
Delivering the inaugural lecture at Trinity College’s Centre for Post-Conflict Justice, Prof Asmal assessed the record of South Africa’s truth and reconciliation commission and examined the prospects of such a model for the North.
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