Jerry wrote:zan wrote:CopperLine wrote:Pyropolizer et.al,
Recent speculative posts reconfirm my reasons for keeping quiet.
Jerry, I'm grateful for you saying that "it's not important what his nationality is..." Much appreciated and reciprocated.
Returning to the main title of the thread, as far as I am aware there have been three main ways in which tragic social divisions have ultimatley been overcome. First is "victor's justice" in which, regardless of casualties, regardless of the scale or ferocity of wrongs, the victor imposes a new order/constituion. For example, 1945 in Germany and Japan. The second type is for a multi-party negotiation in which the origins and causes of the social division are investigated, numbers of casulties carefully examined and a new order negotiated. The third way, and something that has been characteristic of some of the longest divisions where brother killed brother, if the establishment of 'truth and reconcialiation' commissions. The aim of these is less to assign blame and to punish and more to simply bring out the truth and thereby allow reconciliartion. This model was used succesfully in South Africa, in Chile, in Argentina and in Guatemala, and it can be done separate from any new constitution making.
Connected, but at a slight tangent to this, it is real testament to one time bitterest of enemies that the newly discovered war dead of the first (and second) world war are buried with dignity through multi-national cooperation amongst war time enemies. (This also occurd with more recent coflicts such as the Vietnam war). The issues of 'who started it' and 'who is to blame' and 'who killed more' are set aside.
We are ready when thay are. It still takes two to tango.
The problem is Zan, as I see it, most TC posters on this site( who may or may not be representitive of the TC population) refuse to accept equal blame for the current situation. That to me must be the starting point for genuine and sincere reconciliation.
I am sorry mate but that is not the way I see it on this forum. We have been blamed for this whole affair over and over again throughout the entire period. When our suffering is mentioned it is very quickly brushed over. We have acknowledged the GC suffering many times but that always seems to be the deciding factor in all negotiations.
