CVR Final Report. Annex 11. Printed Edition. Public Assessment and Outlook Sessions

The CVR now begins a new cycle of public activities in which it gathers and presents to the citizenry the testimony of organizations and institutions that bore responsibility or played a part in the acts of violence experienced in the country over the past two decades. In doing so, it acts under the broad lines of work laid out from the beginning, which involve recovering the truth about the aforementioned process by attending to the parties involved — not to attack their accounts, but to weigh them impartially and compare them with the facts we have investigated. In this way, we will be able to offer the Nation a truthful and unquestionable history of those years. At the same time, we consider it essential to carry out these activities as a way of fostering national reflection on the events experienced. This is an opportunity for the various protagonists of violence to critically reflect on the role they played and to give their explanations to the country. This is also an opportunity for society at large, in attending these presentations, to evaluate what was lived through, to take on its own responsibilities, and above all to become aware of what must change in our country to achieve justice and, ultimately, reconciliation. (Excerpt from the introduction. Salomón Lerner Febres).