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Civil War Subjectivities: Space, Social Change and Ethnicised Violence in Sri Lanka

2nd October 2018 / Anoma Pieris / ASAA books, South Asia Studies, Sri Lanka

“…never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee” (John Donne, Meditation 17) The Sri Lankan civil war has been reviewed and debated by many scholars who argue its rootedness in historic enmities, its evolution from an ethnicised consciousness and its more immediate political struggles in relation to diasporic and party […]

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The long wait for justice in postwar Sri Lanka

31st March 2017 / Udeni Hanchapola Appuhamilage / Sri Lanka

Though the decades-long war between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels is over, it still haunts many Sri Lankans, writes Udeni Appuhamilage Since the end of the separatist war between Sri Lankan government forces and the Tamil Tiger group rebels in May 2009 there have been strong calls for an independent investigation of war crimes,

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Sri Lanka opts for normality with Rajapaksa ousting

15th February 2015 / Damien Kingsbury / Sri Lanka

DAMIEN KINGSBURY analyses the surprise election of Maithripala Sirisena as president last month and sees it as reflecting a desire for a more open, less authoritarian political process. The recent election in Sri Lanka of the new president, Maithripala Sirisena, has surprised many who thought that ousted Mahinda Rajapaksa would remain in office more or

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Civil War Subjectivities: Space, Social Change and Ethnicised Violence in Sri Lanka

The long wait for justice in postwar Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka opts for normality with Rajapaksa ousting

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