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Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up

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    Sierra Leone's Parliament approved draft legislation on Tuesday to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission envisaged in the Lome Peace Accord signed in July 1999, news organisations reported. It will comprise three international commissioners and four national commissioners.

    The commission, which will cover the period from the beginning of the conflict in 1991 to the signing of the accord, will create an "impartial historical record of violations and abuses of human rights and humanitarian law," a UN spokesman said in New York on Wednesday.

    Experts provided by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson helped draft the statute which set up the Commission.

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