Washington Independent, Dec. 8, 2008 by Daphne Eviatar
http://washingtonindependent.com/21313/21313
Carolyn Patty Blum, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law [and] a consultant to the International Center for Transitional Justice, which specializes in accountability for human-rights abuses, disagrees. “[Our] institutional experience working with truth commissions around the world is that the opposite happens. Once people feel they are already protected, they don’t have any incentive to come forward.”