The creation of a legal eligibility allowing the grant of…

The creation of a legal eligibility allowing the grant of an amnesty for treason is abhorrent and unacceptable. The Bill was supposed to be a search for the truth behind the tragedy of 2000, but the Bill never once mentions the word “truth”.

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16 June 2005 parliamentary submission

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