Twelve Cries From Home av Minoli Salgado

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<b><i>Twelve Cries from Home</i> speaks out against Sri Lanka’s official silencing of war crimes, reclaiming the stories of survivors who insist on being heard.</b><br><br><b>Since August 2020, the intimidation of witnesses and journalists has surged in Sri Lanka.</b><i><b>Twelve Cries from Home</b></i><b>navigates the memories and stories of twelve war survivors, mostly women and relatives of the disappeared, who wished to have their stories retold so that a permanent record might be made, and so that those outside the country might understand their experiences.</b><br><br>The outcome of a journey across the island in late 2018 by writer and Professor of Literature Minoli Salgado, who was revisiting her ancestral home, <i>Twelve Cries from Home</i> is deeply-layered and localised work of travelling witness. It returns to the concept of home as a place of belonging and security, which is a lost ideal for most, and uses a Sri Lankan measure of distance – the c