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Mexico ponders a possible `truth commission'.(The Dallas Morning News)
ATOYAC, Mexico _ The last time anyone saw Rosendo Radilla, he was in the war-torn hills above Acapulco, defiantly singing a rebel song to his military captors.
That was just before Radilla _ who had written the song to honor guerrilla leader Lucio Cabanas during a military crackdown _ "disappeared" into an army detention camp 27 years ago.
Ever since, daughter Tita Radilla has pressured the government to explain what happened to her father, who had been mayor of Atoyac, a local musician and a supporter of peasant rebels who called themselves the Party of the Poor in the 1970s.
"I want to know who took him away, what they did to him, what they said to him, who is responsible," said Tita Radilla, vice president of a national group that works on behalf of 1,300 "disappeared" people. "I want to know the whole truth, no matter how hard that truth is."
The desire to dig up Mexico's hidden past now that the 71-year rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party is over has this nation facing the same question that confronted Argentina, East Germany and South Africa before it:
Is it better to forgive and forget on the road to a new democratic nation, or must the demons of the past first be purged?
It's not an easy question ...
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