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Este articulo examina como Latinoamerica se ha enfrentado, en diferentes paises y bajo diferentes circunstancias, con su pasado represivo. Resena el establecimiento de varias comisiones locales y la efectividad de las mismas dentro del contexto del regreso a la normalidad. Se trata el papel de la Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, asi como el de la Comision de la Verdad de la ONU, en implementar los estandards de derechos humanos y en verificar que se haga justicia. Se enfatiza en la revelacion de toda la verdad como un requisito previo para la reconciliacion, la unica base para una sociedad solida y democratica. (UNISA Lat Am Rep/DÜI)

The italo-American journalist, Luigi Barzini, expressed a common opinion about Germany by calling it a Protean country. He was referring to Proteus, the prophetic old man of the sea who would reveal the shape of things to come only when he was tied down. But he could not be pinned down easily; he continued to change - into a roaring lion or a harmless sheep, a slippery serpent or a charging bull. .

Seit mehreren Jahrzehnten existiert ein Wissen darüber, dass unbewältigte traumatische Erfahrungen auf die Nachkommen von Traumatisierten Auswirkungen haben und in deren Selbstwahrnehmung Spuren hinterlassen. Insbesondere gilt dies für die häufig nicht bzw. kaum zu bewältigenden Extremtraumatisierungen, die Überlebende der Shoah erlitten haben. Aber auch Nachfahren Gefolterter oder in Bürgerkriegen Misshandelter und von Flüchtlingen finden in sich seelische Spuren der Grauen ihrer Vorfahren, an welchen sie selbst, obwohl nicht von diesen Schicksalen betroffen, leiden. Schließlich sind auch Kinder und Enkel von Folterern, Massenmördern und Kriegsverbrechern vom angerichteten Grauen ihrer Vorfahren unbewusst psychisch beeinflusst. Gemeinsam ist beiden Gruppen von Nachfahren, dass sie ein diffuses Empfinden haben, es gäbe in ihrem Selbsterleben etwas, das nicht zu ihnen selbst gehört, nicht genau fassbare Splitter von fremdartigen, störenden Gefühlen und Gedanken, die sie abzuschütteln versuchen, zu verleugnen und zu ignorieren. Gleichwohl verspüren sie deren Präsenz in sich und sind gezwungen, diese Fremdanteile im Ich zu bewältigen, soll es nicht zu sich verstärkenden Gefühlen der Ichfremdheit und des Selbst- und Fremdhasses kommen, die schlimmsten Falls ausagiert werden und damit die Spirale der wiederholenden Weitergabe in eine neue Drehung versetzen.

After the occupation of Hamburg by British troops on May 3rd, 1945, the Hamburg University was closed, but reopened on November 6th, 1945 - half a year after the end of the "Third Reich" and the Second World War. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of this reopening on 6 November 2015, the University of Hamburg took the opportunity to publicly discuss the difficult transition of its own institution from the Nazi dictatorship into the democratic post-war period. This volume of "Hamburger Universitätsreden" documents the four speeches held on on this occation.

For more than a decade, Korean society has taken various legal steps to rectify past wrongs perpetrated by the old authoritarian-military regime. In 1995, the "Special Act Concerning the May 18 Democratization Movement" was passed in the National Assembly. Under this new legal circumstance, the two former presidents were imprisoned on charges of leading the 1979 military coup and brutally oppressing the May 18 Uprising of 1980. However, because such a transition from the authoritarian-military rule was established through a political compromise, Korean society had to experience a limited transitional justice. As another step to rectify past wrongs, the "Act for Restoring the Honor of Democratization Movement Involvers and Providing Compensation for Them" was enacted in 2000. Under this Act, a number of democratization activists have been recognized as "democratization movement involvers." However, this Act has been strongly criticized because the activists using harsh counter-violence were also recognized as the "involvers." In 2001, the legislature enacted the "Special Act for Truth-Finding Suspicious Deaths" to handle the suspicious deaths of many democratization activists during the old authoritarian-military regime. Also, broadening the scope of illustrating past wrongs, a series of laws was recently enacted to uncover the activities of pro-Japanese collaborators under the Japanese occupation in the early twentieth century. These various Special Acts for dealing with past wrongs certainly have never been free from political struggle between the liberal and conservative. Some argue that these acts were forged by agreements between these two factions. However, although each side has advocated somewhat differently, they have come together in the belief that Korean society needs to discard the legacy of the authoritarian regime. In this light, the acts are symbolic statements that officially declare the people's dissatisfaction with the authoritarian regime. Therefore, they are necessary for Koreans to heal old ...

In May 1980, the Korean military committed a coup d'etat and massacred Kwangju citizens. South Korea's democratic transition exposed a variety of human rights abuses and raised several issues for the new government. The first issue was how to deal with the Kwangju Incident. Key figures, including two former Presidents, were found guilty of treason and massacre. However, lawyers faced a series of difficult legal questions: How could members of a victorious coup be punished? Would a trial seek retroactive punishment? Who should be held accountable for the massacre? In the struggle for truth and justice, Koreans declared and implemented basic principles for resolving the pain brought on by the Kwangju massacre: truth, justice, compensation, honor-restoration, and commemoration. Now, such principles set a standard for solving other military atrocities that may be committed under an authoritarian regime.