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Adel Maizi: "Remembrance isn’t just about the past, it helps build the future"

Adel Maizi chaired the “memory committee” at Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the International Council on Archives, where he is an expert on archives and human rights. Maizi explains how the work of remembrance has become the poor relation of transitional justice in Tunisia.

By Olfa Belhassine, our correspondent in Tunis

A man walks in front of works of art exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Colonial racism catches up with Amsterdam Rijksmuseum

2 elderly people demonstrate (holding up pictures of Franco's victims), in the streets of Madrid (Spain)

Democratising and decolonising Spain: the limits of the new law on memory

Scene from the play

Tunisia: artists take up the torch of remembrance

Frederick Flick (owner of the Flick company) stands during his sentencing at the Nuremberg trial in Germany.

In Nuremberg, “we started to judge company executives and managers”

Black and white photo of a hospital bed (operating table type) in the 60-70s.

Denmark and Greenland confront a traumatic birth control campaign

Felix Tshisekedi and Denis Sassou Nguesso (foreground) attend the funeral ceremony of Patrice Lumumba (large portrait in background).

Lumumba's tooth is returned, while still waiting for truth

Technical draftsmen work on plans

When business helped a genocide

3 Indonesian veterans (one crying) attend a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the war of independence against the Netherlands

Dutch Colonial Violence and the Missing Voices of Indonesians

Portrait of Lokman Slim

In Lebanon, the Lokman Slim Foundation will keep the memory of political assassinations

Banknote (dated 1920) of one Belgian Franc on which is written

Colonial crimes: Experts recommend that Belgium compensate

Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in Algiers, surrounded by French and Algerian flags.

France-Algeria: Having the courage to create a Truth and Memory Commission

Bosnia genocide denial ban stirs tension

Statue représentant Rumben Um

Cameroon: Um Nyobè, a hero and symbol of French colonial crimes

War scene in a children's drawing (helicopters, paratroopers, boats, fire...)

“When the planes came, the birds were afraid…”*

Soldier in front of Arch 22 in Banjul, Gambia

Gambia: Government and Truth Commission clash over Jammeh’s Arch

Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives

Colonial Crimes: World map of justice initiatives

Colonial crimes: a chess game to negotiate reparations, restitution, truth and the duty to remember

Hour of reckoning for colonial crimes

Paul Kagame et Emmanuel Macron à Paris

In Rwanda, genocide commemorations are infused with political and diplomatic agendas