This Divided Island: Life, Death, and the Sri Lankan War
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- Synopsis
- In May 2009, when the civil war ended in Sri Lanka, the world sat up and took note. In its crusade to section off an independent state for Sri Lanka's Tamil-speaking minority, a rebel force of guerrillas--the Tigers--found itself squeezed into the northÂeast corner of the island, hiding behind hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians on the run. Unwatched by most of the world, the war raged and raged, feeding itself some strange fuel that lent it such durability; it must be among the longest continuous wars since the beginning of the twentieth century, if not the very longest. The longer the war wore on, the more it transmuted the substance of life into something simultaneously strange and revealing. The author went to Sri Lanka to discover what became of life before, during, and after the decades of war, and to find out what the conflict had done to the country's soul.
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 334 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250069740
- Publisher:
- St. Martin's Press
- Date of Addition:
- 03/08/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Samanth Subramanian
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Military, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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