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9 - Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Reconstruction Process

The Case of Former LTTE Female Combatants in Postwar Sri Lanka

from Part III - Ethics of Witnessing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2019

Nergis Canefe
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
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The present Sri Lankan state acclaims itself as a country that uprooted terrorism from its soil by defeating the LTTE in the civil war in May 2009. This victory and consequent “peace” came at a significant human cost of destruction, displacement and loss of lives. The chapter asserts that idea of transitional justice in Sri Lanka needs to be mooted, especially in conjunction with the ground realities of the Sri Lankan society and state. In this relation, the chapter proposes that transitional justice in the postwar Sri Lanka will be incomplete without looking into the aspect of political agency of former female “Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam” (Tamil Elam Vitutalaip Pulikal) combatants during the conflict.

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Transitional Justice and Forced Migration
Critical Perspectives from the Global South
, pp. 222 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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