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- ISBN: 9780415478076 | 0415478073
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 12/3/2008
This book highlights how, and why, torture is such a compelling tool for states and other powerful actors. While torture has a short-term use value for perpetrators, it also creates a devastating legacy for victims, their families and communities. In exposing such repercussions, this book addresses the questions #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;What might torture victims need to move forward from their violation?#xE2;#xAC;" and #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;How can official responses provide truth or justice for torture victims?#xE2;#xAC;" Building on observations, documentary analysis and over seventy interviews with both torture victims and transitional justice workers this book explores how torture was used, suffered and resisted in Timor-Leste. The author investigates the extent to which transitional justice institutions have provided justice for torture victims; illustrating how truth commissions and international courts operate together and reflecting on their successes and weaknesses with reference to wider social, political and economic conditions. Stanley also details victims#xE2;#xAC;" experiences of torture and highlights how they experience life in the newly built state of Timor-Leste Tracking the past, present and future of human rights, truth and justice for victims in Timor-Leste, Torture, Truth and Justicewill be of interest to students, professionals and scholars of Asian studies, International Studies, Human Rights and Social Policy.