Truth and Reconciliation
The contrast between Argentina, where military officials from the dictatorship are still jailed for crimes, while in South Africa apartheid's leaders received amnesty, pensions, and privilege.

Police repressing protesters in front of the congress in Buenos Aires. Image: Fabricio Nicolas Fischer via Shutterstock.
In Argentina members of that country’s military dictatorship that conducted a “dirty war” against its people still go to jail for their crimes, this week actually, while in South Africa Apartheid’s generals and government ministers get amnesty and fat pensions, holiday homes in Wilderness, mansions in Pretoria’s suburbs, find Jesus and wash the feet of their victims or demand huge speaker fees, announce themselves as victims of reverse racism while the black char or the maid serves them lunch, or are lauded as statesmen when they finally die. Before you throw the forgiveness card at me, Argentina also had one of those truth commissions already.




















