„LOVEN ER KUN FOR DE SMÅ FOLK“: Sandhedskommissioner og fremstillinger af (u)retfærdighed i nationsop bygningsprocessen i Østtimor
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https://doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i57.106803Resumé
This article is based on fi eldwork conducted in Timor Leste in 2004-5 and an
ongoing fi eldwork commenced in early 2007. It is inspired by the frequent
references to justice – and particularly to injustice – in political debates, public
protests and media reports during both fi eldworks. The article examines how
approaches to justice represented by the two truth commissions, CAVR and CTF,
relate to alternative notions of justice in the nation-building process. The study
should further show how the early nationalist movement created an idea of “The
People” as united by a sense of shared suffering, and their enjoined fi ght against
injustices. This notion of a people bonded through an experience of injustice
created big expectations that independence would deliver better times. The
same can be said for the time of the “post-confl ict”; the context in which most
truth commissions operate. The “post-confl ict” period proved to be problematic
with its inherent promises of a break with a diffi cult past. The article sees truth
commissions as institutionalised attempts to realise this desire towards a break
with a violent past in favour of a brighter future. However, in Timor Leste, the
present does not yet live up to expectations created towards justice and social
change, and the article further examines how, as a result, new understandings of
justice come into being after independence.
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