Confronting the Complexity of Loss

2.7 The final stages of the war .............................................................................................. 31
2.8 Disappearances and displacement in the aftermath of war ............................................. 32
2.9 Riot in Aluthgama ........................................................................................................... 33
3. Reflections on Truth, Memory and Justice ....................................................................... 34
3.1 The context of loss .......................................................................................................... 34
3.2 Self reflection .................................................................................................................. 37
3.3 Telling others .................................................................................................................. 38
3.4 Memorialising ................................................................................................................. 44
3.5 Justice and the perpetrator .............................................................................................. 46
3.6 Future prevention ............................................................................................................ 53
Part 3: Conclusion........................................................................................................... 57
1. Heterogeneity and the Reductive Narrative ..................................................................... 57
2. Factors that Shape the Views of Victims ........................................................................... 62
2.1 Legitimacy of context ..................................................................................................... 62
2.2 Self reflection .................................................................................................................. 63
2.3 Timeframe....................................................................................................................... 64
3. Truth, Justice and Reparations ......................................................................................... 65
3.1 Truth ............................................................................................................................... 65
3.2 Justice ............................................................................................................................. 67
2.3 Reparations ..................................................................................................................... 67
Bibliography .................................................................................................................... 69
Annexes ............................................................................................................................ 76
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