A sociological exploration of disappearances in Sri Lanka
Subtitle: "not even a person, not even a word..."
By: Jane Thomson-Senanayake
Contributors: Asian Human Rights Commission
Publisher: Asian Human Rights Commission
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hong Kong, China
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9789554597044
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Disappeared persons; Disappeared persons' families; Political violence
Other titles: Disappearances in Sri Lanka
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-334).
Table of contents: title: 1. Disappearance as political competition; title: 2. Disappearances 1971; title: 3. Institutionalisation of political violence; title: 4. Dealing with the 'other'; title: 5. We have the democratic power to do anything : political violence and manufactured chaos; title: 6. War against civilians; title: 7. No-one even gave us a glass of water : social positioning and stigmatisation; title: 8. We can't open our mouths and tell you in words all that we have gone through : political engagement with and the appropriation of suffering; title: 9. The only voice here is that of a gunshot : politicisation of due process and other official mechanisms of inquiry; title: 10. Political imagination.