A Powderkeg in Paradise: Lost Opportunity for Peace in Sri Lanka
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8122007775, 9788122007770
Length
xx+242p., Maps; 16 Plates; Illustrations; Index; 24cm.
Subjects
Over a quarter of a century ago, civil war erupted in Sri Lanka, turning a tropical island in the Indian Ocean, renowned for its beauty, into a theatre for a protracted conflict of barbaric bloodletting, which cost up to ninety thousand inhabitants their lives. Initially the conflict was sparked by an uprising of armed groups of angry young men claiming to represent the mainstream Tamil minority in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Their struggle ...
