The end of the Cold War raised the profiles of international tribunals and truth commissions as official mechanisms for dealing with the legacies of political violence around the world. However, these mechanisms have the tendency to generate somewhat stark accounts of the past and present, and of guilt and heroism, and are thus an inadequate forum for grasping the complexities of protracted, multiple and fracturing intragroup violence. This article is based on fieldwork in Timor Leste. It analyzes the unresolved legacies of Timorese intragroup political violence through a focus on the interventions of political leaders in the Timorese national parliament over time, coupled with an analysis of some of their autobiographies. It reveals how the crisscrossing histories of violence and fluctuating group affiliations have shaped ongoing political struggles, from silence and denial to unsettling voices and deliberations, which constitute sources of enduring political negotiations, mistrust and tension among Timorese leaders.

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谈判东帝汶内部暴力的遗留问题

冷战的结束提升了国际法庭和真相委员会作为处理世界各地政治暴力遗留问题的官方机制的形象。然而，这些机制倾向于对过去和现在、内疚和英雄主义产生某种鲜明的描述，因此不足以掌握长期、多重和分裂的内部暴力的复杂性。本文基于在东帝汶的实地考察。它通过关注帝汶国民议会中政治领导人随着时间的推移进行的干预以及对他们的一些自传的分析，分析了东帝汶内部政治暴力的未解决遗产。