In the wake of the fall of apartheid, the restorative justice effort known as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission demanded that individuals who wished to receive amnesty for crimes committed in the fight for political power tell the full truth about what they had done in the service of the old regime. As part of that process, people who had served as agents of the South African apartheid government started talking. And one event they were talking about was the assassination of Olof Palme.
