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Twelve Cries From Home In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared Format: Paperback

Description: Twelve Cries from Home speaks out against Sri Lanka’s official silencing of war crimes, reclaiming the stories of survivors who insist on being heard.

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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Intended Audience: General/trade

Book Title: Twelve Cries from Home : in Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared

Number of Pages: 250 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Watkins Media The Limited

Publication Year: 2022

Item Height: 0.7 in

Topic: Sociology / General, History & Theory, Human Rights, Censorship

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, Social Science

Item Weight: 8 Oz

Item Length: 7.7 in

Author: Minoli Salgado

Item Width: 5.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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