The right to the truth about gross human rights violations is gradually becoming more firmly entrenched in international human rights law. However, the content and contours of the right to the truth are not without controversy. Some of the most pressing issues that have arisen are the extent of society’s right to the truth, the scope of the truth that it pursues (fact-finding or broader historical truth) and the relationship between truth seeking and official acknowledgment. This article turns to multidisciplinary research about truth seeking and memory with regard to gross human rights violations, which provides rich insights into the role of truth in the aftermath of mass atrocities that can shed light on the possible implications of the right to the truth. It thus provides a critical reflection on the right to the truth, in order to consider how it could perform a valuable function.

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对严重侵犯人权行为的真相权的批判性思考

了解严重侵犯人权行为真相的权利正逐渐在国际人权法中变得更加牢固。然而，了解真相权的内容和轮廓并非没有争议。出现的一些最紧迫的问题是社会了解真相的权利的范围，它追求的真相的范围（事实调查或更广泛的历史真相）以及寻求真相与官方承认之间的关系。本文转向关于严重侵犯人权行为的真相寻求和记忆的多学科研究，这些研究为真相在大规模暴行之后的作用提供了丰富的见解，可以阐明了解真相权的可能影响。因此，它提供了对了解真相权的批判性反思，