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Twelve Cries From Home - In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared (Paperback, New edition)
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Twelve Cries From Home - In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared (Paperback, New edition)
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Since August 2020, the intimidation of witnesses and journalists
has surged in Sri Lanka. Twelve Cries from Home navigates the
memories and stories of twelve war survivors, mostly women and
relatives of the disappeared, who wished to have their stories
retold so that a permanent record might be made, and so that those
outside the country might understand their experiences. The outcome
of a journey across the island in late 2018 by writer and Professor
of Literature Minoli Salgado, who was revisiting her ancestral
home, Twelve Cries from Home is deeply-layered and localised work
of travelling witness. It returns to the concept of home as a place
of belonging and security, which is a lost ideal for most, and uses
a Sri Lankan measure of distance - the call, or hoowa - to ask how
we might attend to stories that are difficult to tell and to hear.
Exploring the bitter complexity of war by presenting stories from
four regions of Sri Lanka, it reveals the complex network of
relationships between the agents of conflict and their victims, as
well as the blurred boundary between victims and perpetrators, the
role of informers and the process of ethical repair after traumatic
experience. Twelve Cries from Home offers a rare glimpse into a
country subject to enforced self-censorship, allowing us to take
stock of social and political developments in Sri Lanka and what
has and has not been achieved in light of the transitional justice
mechanisms promised to the UN.
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