SRI LANKA: Where disappearances served as a national security imperative to nation-building?

Reviewed by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena-June 16, 2014

A Book Review: A Sociological Exploration Of Disappearances In Sri Lanka
Author: Jane Thomson-Senanayake
Print Length: 275 pages
Publisher: Asian Human Rights Commission
Date: May 1, 2014
ISBN: 978-955-4597-04-4

Reading through this study by an Australian doctoral researcher Jane Thomson-Senanayake published by the Asian Human Rights Commission, May 2014, I am forcibly reminded of the lessons that history should teach us if a modicum of sense informed our thinking on Sri Lanka’s crisis of state accountability. 

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