Makau Mutua, chair of Kenya’s Human Rights Commission, has a column in the Daily Nation about what lessons Kenya can take away from Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Process. (Hat tip to Ahmed Sirleaf, via the Transitional Justice network.) Mutua argues that, “reconciliation is not the first step in confronting the past. For how can you reconcile victims and perpetrators without accountability or justice?” Here’s an excerpt I like:
The TRC would let President Johnson Sirleaf, who is 70, finish her current term, but not run again in 2011.This appropriate sanction recognises the good work she has done since assuming power, but holds her accountabile for her political dalliances with Taylor.
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