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Alan Kosmajac, Diane Misaljevic and Julie Stewart

We all got a taste of life in a police state last June, but 600,000 immigrants living in Toronto have experienced war crimes, torture and other atrocities, according to photo/installation artists Kosmajac and Misaljevic, lawyer/filmmaker Stewart and the Canadian Centre for International Justice.

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About 500 survivors, including K’naan and Maher Arar, have responded to a call to lend meaningful personal items to the exhibit Fragments, mounted in Lamport Stadium. (Remember the film Missing?) In the week leading up to Nuit Blanche, Sightings – posters of survivors’ eyes, with a URL where we can read their stories – appears in TTC stations, reminding us to consider what that ordinary-looking person next to us might have gone through.

Stewart says it’s not uncommon for the people she works with to encounter perpetrators from their homelands in places like the TTC. The artists invite survivors to the exhibit to share their stories as an act of healing.

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