Healing wounds, mending scars

"Told by the families of the disappeared, survivors and human rights defenders, the book speaks of life and love amidst inhumanity and cruelty; of pain turned into courage; of hope against despair, of struggle in the face of intensifying repression; of empowerment and solidarity that transcend diversity in many respects and of healing wounds and mending scars both in their personal and societal sense."

From the foreword by Mary Aileen D. Bacalso

Acknowledgement

Foreword

Introduction

PART I

I. Kashmir
Enforced Disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir - by Atty. Parvez Imroz
A Way of Fighting Back - by Parveena Ahangar

II. Indonesia
From the Dark Years and Humanitarian-Human Rights Crises to a Year of Establishing Brotherhood and Sisterhood - By: Atty. Sri Suparyati
Losing One’s Faith in the Law - by Tuti Koto
Tale of Survival - by Mugiyanto
Justice for the Acehnese - by Nurmaysitah
When Fear Outweighs Anger - by Wannayetti Sikumbang

III. Pakistan
Pale Shadow of Uncertainty and Despair - by Atty. Farooq Niazi
Shared Pain - by Francis Isaac

IV. Philippines
Martial Law was No Dinner Party - by Francis Isaac
Love in the Time of Political Cholera - by Corazon Olediana-Estojero
The Burden of Ambiguity - by Alberto de los Reyes
Suffer the Innocent - by Cleta Monsanto

V. Sri Lanka
The Phenomenon of Disappearances in Sri Lanka - by Atty. K.D.C. Kumarage
Cutting the Other Hand - by Sumanadasa Athukorala
Plucked from the Family's Bosom - by Tikiri Wijayasundara
Poetic Justice - by L.W. Wijedasa
Innocent Voice Silenced by State Terrorism - by Shantha Pathirana

VI. Thailand
Injustice in the Land of Beauty - by Daisy Valerio
Twelve Years of Waiting - by Arunee Arsasuk
Continuing to Wait - by Jitrada Daojang
A Life that is Never the Same Again - by Sungwian Pumaong

PART II

General Situation - by Francis Isaac

Of Activist and Condor - by Dr. Nila Heredia

An Emerging Nation’s Struggle for Freedom: A Personal Testimony - by Abdeslam Omar Lahsen

The Genesis And Growth of AFAD - by Mary Aileen D. Bacalso

The Path to Healing, the Path to Human Rights - by Aasia Jeelani

MUNIR: STRUGGLING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS UNTIL DEATH - by Mugiyanto

Death In Flight 974 - by Anthony Spaeth

Kashmir loses the voice of the unheard — Aasia Jeelani - by Showkat A. Motta

A TIANANMEN MOTHER VOWS TO FIGHT ON - by Yang Hongfeng

Message - by His Excellency Bernard KESSEDJIAN