Aronson Jay D
Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Int J Transit Justice. 2011 Jul 1;5(2):262-281. doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijr013.
This article examines efforts to account for missing persons from the apartheid era in South Africa by family members, civil society organizations and the current government's Missing Persons Task Team, which emerged out of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process. It focuses on how missing persons have been officially defined in the South African context and the extent to which the South African government is able to address the current needs and desires of relatives of the missing. I make two main arguments: that family members ought to have an active role in shaping the initiatives and institutions that seek to resolve the fate of missing people, and that the South African government ought to take a more holistic 'grave-to-grave' approach to the process of identifying, returning and reburying the remains of the missing.
本文探讨了南非家庭成员、民间社会组织以及源自真相与和解委员会进程的现任政府失踪人员特别工作组为查明种族隔离时代失踪人员下落所做的努力。它聚焦于在南非背景下失踪人员是如何被官方定义的，以及南非政府能够在多大程度上满足失踪人员亲属当前的需求和愿望。我提出两个主要观点：家庭成员应该在塑造旨在解决失踪人员命运的倡议和机构方面发挥积极作用；南非政府应该对失踪人员遗体的辨认、归还和重新安葬过程采取更全面的“从生到死”的方法。
