Benefit or Burden: Victims' Reflections on TRC Participation

By Catherine C. Byrne. 2004

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The impact of Gacaca tribunals in Rwanda: Psychosocial effects of participation in a truth and reconciliation process after a genocide (2011, result): “These findings are in perfect agreement with clinical observations ( Daley , 1997 ; Hamber , 2001 ; Hayner , 2001 ) as well as with the rare pieces of empirical evidence about consequences of TRCs ( Brounéus , 2008 ; Byrne , 2004 ; Kaminer et al .”
Truth-Telling as Talking Cure? Insecurity and Retraumatization in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts (2008, background): “First, there have been reports in South Africa that suggest a risk of retraumatization for individuals giving testimony to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (de Ridder, 1997; Byrne, 2004); the gacaca being a functional equivalent to the TRC, lessons may be learned from this.”
The Trauma of Truth Telling: Effects of Witnessing in the Rwandan Gacaca Courts on Psychological Health (2010, background): “Indeed, if one turns to recent findings within psychological research, the question arises whether there may be risks involved in truth-telling procedures (Brewin 2001; Byrne 2004; de Ridder 1997; Rose, Bisson, and Wessely 2003).”