After years of violence, the oil-rich region is experiencing relative peace thanks to a 2009 amnesty that offered salaries and training for thousands of ex-militants.
It was not until the commission began last year to call in those who sought amnesty that answers, the larger truth, even began to emerge.
Mr. Videla served only five years before receiving a pardon by then-President Carlos Menem, part of a broad amnesty that Mr. Menem said would help heal wounds of the era.
Mr Zardari's party fears that if former Supreme Court judges, including ex-chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, are reinstated, they could overturn a controversial amnesty that Mr Musharraf granted Mr Zardari and Ms Bhutto last year that paved the way for them to return to the country.
Yet, there are those in the Senate that want to grant amnesty for those that come here illegally.
But there are concerns that the amnesty may contain loopholes that risk increasing distrust in the troubled peace process.
You may have seen the now infamous Pennsylvania Tax Amnesty ad that has folks all over the country talking.
The agency is now sifting through the results of a partial amnesty program that netted 7, 500 disclosures by Americans who held offshore accounts.
Each NHL team has the option of two amnesty buyouts that could be used to terminate contracts before next season or the 2014-15 season.
An amnesty system that allows for domestic workers to become legal migrants after five years in the country produced an apparent jump in the number of Peruvians living in Italy, from 78, 000 to 88, 000, and of Filipinos, from 114, 000 to 124, 000, in the year to January 2010.
So I don't call that amnesty, and I think the debate over that word is part of what doomed this bill.
Poll after poll shows that Americans are opposed to illegal immigration and amnesty, so that could be the sleeper issue for '08.
' But they have produced legislation ... that will give amnesty now, legalize everyone that's here effectively today and then there's a promise of enforcement in the future.
MPs last week that no amnesty was being offered, the reality is that, with a very few exceptions, some 10, 000 asylum seekers whose applications were made before July 1993, will be allowed to stay in Britain.
In the last election many Republicans scoffed at the idea of giving them amnesty, saying that would reward criminal behaviour.
The real advantage to participation in an amnesty program is that the consequences are clearly spelled out for the taxpayer.
More restrictive company law and a police amnesty for companies that come clean have shrunk the number of active sokaiya from 6, 800 in 1982 to 600 by the end of last year, according to the National Police Agency.
Romney suggested that McCain's support for a guest-worker program in his immigration package amounted to "amnesty, " and that he feared McCain would do to immigration what he had done to campaign finance with the McCain-Feingold bill.
They point out that an unconditional amnesty has never been granted to any fugitive in India and say that, even in the case of the dreaded bandits of Chambal Valley in north India, the brigands had to undergo imprisonment before they were rehabilitated.
Whether it is called amnesty or not, that will be the perceived purpose.
Nor is it the case that denying amnesty would make an iota of difference to future rates of illegal immigration.
The pressure group Migrationwatch UK has argued that an amnesty on illegal immigrants would put too much pressure on council housing.
Mitt believes that an amnesty should not be permitted to happen again.
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For example, they might review an amnesty from corruption charges that Mr Musharraf gave to Mr Zardari and Ms Bhutto last year.
Most amnesty programs also require that taxpayers become and remain compliant.
But groups that want tighter immigration control say that just gives amnesty to law breakers.
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If you tell people who have broken the law that they can stay here, that's amnesty.
The good news is that the IRS amnesty known as OVDP continues to welcome people into the program with no announced expiration date.
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