The Subaltern in Search of Speech
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Editor’s Note: The following is the text of the author’s keynote address at a Conference on International Accountability in Burma, chaired by Professor Gayatri Spivak
Professor Gayatri Spivak Chakravarti,
I would like to thank you, Mr. Mawng Zarni and his enthusiasm for bringing me here today to discuss one of the most important issues of our lifetime. Every generation loses its way, stops being vigilant, begins to believe in false Gods and then there is terrible violence. Scholars and lawyers are left to debate whether it is genocide or war crimes or crimes against humanity. This happened in the 1940s and the 1990s. One such episode took place in August 2017.
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