The Go-Between
By Sean Coughlan
BBC News Magazine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4723320.stm

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who oversaw the post-apartheid reconciliation in his native South Africa, has now brought victims and killers from Northern Ireland's Troubles face to face. He talked about the experience to the BBC News website.

Even though we might think we're hardened to reality television, real-life, raw emotion is still quietly shocking, catching you unawares.

In Facing the Truth, where soldiers and paramilitaries face the families of victims, there are plenty of these moments, with voices catching and tears falling. It sounds like the crying you hear at funerals, not on television shows.

Hosting these encounters is Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who led South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where the victims and perpetrators of violence sought to understand one another.

After recording these televised encounters, he described the "extraordinary moments" where people faced up to the violent events that changed their lives.

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