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In order to gain a clear understanding of the potential and feasibility it holds, the paper will evaluate the amnesty within the discourse of transitional justice. The issue of how to deal with the past in transition is difficult to answer. The latter involves political, historical and societal considerations. The extent of severity of past violations, the prior history of democratic rule of law, the number of victims, whose justice, and the economy provide a unique approach in each context.   Redressing the wrongs committed through human rights violations is not only a legal obligation and a moral imperative imposed on governments. It also makes good political sense in the transition from dictatorship to democracy. The paper thus gives the examination of amnesty within the broader transitional justice mechanism.