The office on missing persons in Sri Lanka: why truth is a radical proposition
In 2016, the Sri Lanka Parliament passed the Office on Missing Persons Act (OMP) ‘to search for and trace missing persons.’ At the time, Sinhala Buddhist nationalist leaders strongly objected to it. In this article, I read their resistance as resistance to a truth-seeking mechanism. Locating my anal...
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International journal of transitional justice
Year: 2023, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 157-172 |
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