In _Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy_ Tricia Olsen (2010) demonstrates that, "the more accountability, the greater the improvement in democracy" (p. 139). There is much importance in taking accountability for the wrongs done. When utilizing memorialization efforts it is crucial to show the governments role in the harming of its citizens. It is also important to show the faces of the police and officials who brutalized many people, often without just cause, warrants, or right. Victims tend to feel at peace when perpetrates are shown for what they really are. Deng Xiaoping, Chairman Hua Guofeng, and the many officers and doctors that were involved in the wrongful procedures should be recognized as the perpetrators. The victims should be the women and men who lost their children, women who lost their life, the baby girls who have been abandoned and murdered, the women who have faced acts of violence, those aborted and sterilized without consent, and all of the people harmed from the One-Child Policy. Only then, maybe, victims will feel a since of peace and began to heal.
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