ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

National Truth Commission

Have you ever heard of the saying, "honesty is the best policy?" Well, a truth commission is a group of people who are in charge of finding out the truth about something that happened in the past. The national truth commission is a group of people who are responsible for this in the whole country.

So, let's say many years ago, something really bad happened in a country. Maybe some people were treated very unfairly, or there was a big conflict between groups of people. The national truth commission comes together to investigate what happened and find out the real, honest story. They talk to people who were involved or who witnessed what happened, and they look at all the documents and evidence they can find.

Their goal is to make sure that everyone knows the truth about what happened so that people can learn from the past and try to make things better for the future. It's like if you made a mistake and needed to apologize and make things right — the national truth commission is like the grown-ups who help make sure everyone knows what happened and can work together to do better in the future.