Prosecutions marginalize poor victims’ narratives that truth commissions can include

Evidence

As Veena Das (1995) argues in the case of litigation that focused on Union Carbide’s culpability in the Bhopal disaster, prosecutions marginalize the narratives of individuals who have suffered directly, particularly when they are poor. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and similar forums, on the other hand, are able to investigate broader social and political issues and to explore more complex relationships and forms of responsibility, and they permit a wider range of actors and narrative modes of depicting genocide (see Minow, 1998). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 269

Categorization

• XREF: The prosecutorial-vs-truth-commission contrast parallels the justice-versus-reconciliation debate found elsewhere in the vault’s transitional-justice material.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 269