Victims and citizens have the right to know the truth (Han, 2005). Criminal and administrative investigations constitute a legal response that provides spaces to investigate the truth, so that retaliation and restoration can be carried out based on confirmed facts (Elster, 2006). In this sense, recognition, at least to some extent, of past wrongs is an indispensable element of transitional justice (Han, 2005). Social knowledge of the past is simultaneously reconstructed as the old regime is rejected (Anderlini et al., 2004). In other words, law and legal processes have a profound impact on the formation of collective memory, which further contributes to achieving political consensus under the new policy (Teitel,