Volume 4: The legal findings and accountability

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Volume 4: The legal findings and accountability is a section of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report that analyzes the legal dimensions of apartheid-era abuses and addresses questions of responsibility and justice.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf report volume
section of a final report
addresses compatibility of amnesty with international law
obligations to investigate and prosecute serious crimes
questions of accountability
questions of justice
aimsTo clarify legal responsibility for apartheid-era abuses
guide post-apartheid legal reforms
inform future accountability mechanisms
analyzes legal dimensions of apartheid policies
responsibility of political leaders
responsibility of security forces
responsibility of state institutions
appliesFramework Constitution of South Africa
surface form: South African constitutional law

international human rights law
international humanitarian law
associatedWith transitional justice in South Africa
truth commissions
context South African transition to democracy
country South Africa
focusesOnPeriod apartheid era
genre legal analysis
transitional justice report
hasAuthor Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
surface form: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
language English
partOf Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports
surface form: South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report
publishedBy Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
surface form: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
relatedTo Volume 1: South Africa’s political conflict in the 1960s–1990s
surface form: Volume 1: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report

Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports
surface form: Volume 2: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report

Volume 3: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report
Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports
surface form: Volume 5: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report
subject accountability
amnesty and prosecution
apartheid-era human rights abuses
command responsibility
crimes against humanity
domestic law
gross human rights violations
individual criminal responsibility
international law
legal findings
reparations and remedies
state responsibility
typeOfAccountabilityDiscussed civil accountability
criminal accountability
institutional accountability
political accountability

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports hasPart Volume 4: The legal findings and accountability
Volume 1: South Africa’s political conflict in the 1960s–1990s relatedTo Volume 4: The legal findings and accountability
this entity surface form: Volume 4 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report