during a transitional period, and compile a full and accurate record of these abuses using available documentation, victim statements, and testimony from perpetrators; · to require persons accused of human rights violations, but who deny that they committed such violations, to appear before the Commission so that these cases can be fairly investigated and findings can be made; · to require persons who admit to having committed human rights violations over this period to appear before the Commission, make full and accurate admissions about their involvement; · to recommend that those found to have committed gross human rights abuses should be removed from any positions of power and authority that would allow them to commit further human rights abuses in the future; · to recommend that the remedial steps needed in order to provide reparations to victims should encompass the basic rights framework outlined by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations; namely, the right to know, the right to justice, the right to non-recurrence, and the rights to restitution, compensation and rehabilitation; · to explore the desirability of facilitating genuine community reconciliation; · to facilitate processes of community-driven exhumation, reburial and memorialisation. To be effective this Commission must be independent, credible, efficient, adequately resourced, accessible and victim-friendly. Civic organizations should monitor and support the operations of this Commission. xi