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Torture, Truth and Justice: The Case of Timor Leste<br>
By Elizabeth Stanley<br>
Edition: illustrated<br>
Published by Taylor & Francis, 2008<br>
ISBN 0415478073, 9780415478076<br>
208 pages<br><br>
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<h2><b>Torture, Truth and Justice</b></h2>By Elizabeth Stanley<br>
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 'What might torture victims need to move forward
from their violation?' and 'How can official responses provide truth or
justice for torture victims?' 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' 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 Justice will be of interest to
students, professionals and scholars of Asian studies, International
Studies, Human Rights and Social Policy.<br><br>
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<li>Muhammad Nasir and Nug Katjasungkana
<li>Indonesia, Vol. 74, (Oct., 2002), pp. 59-63
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