Unspeakable truths: Transitional justice and the challenge of truth commissions

Unspeakable Truths: Transitional Justice and the Challenge of Truth Commissions

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-356

  Hayner, Priscilla B ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203867822     Document Type: Book

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