Book Description
Contains a selection of papers presented at the Seminar on the American Impact on Sri Lanka, held at Kandy, 28th-29th Mar. 1987.
Author : Chandra Richard De Silva
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN :
Contains a selection of papers presented at the Seminar on the American Impact on Sri Lanka, held at Kandy, 28th-29th Mar. 1987.
Author : James T. Rutnam
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 1976*
Category : Missions, American
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Peebles
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 9780313332050
A concise and up-to-date history of Sri Lanka, including significant attention to current conflicts.
Author : Francis Boyle
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0932863876
Sri Lanka’s government declared victory in May, 2009, in one of the world’s most intractable wars after a series of battles in which it killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, who had been fighting to create a separate homeland for the country’s ethnic Tamil minority. The United Nations said the conflict had killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people in Sri Lanka since full-scale civil war broke out in 1983. A US State Department report offered a grisly catalogue of alleged abuses, including the killing of captives or combatants seeking surrender, the abduction and in some cases murder of Tamil civilians, and dismal humanitarian conditions in camps for displaced persons. Human Rights Watch said the U.S. report should dispel any doubts that serious abuses were committed during the final months of the 26-year civil war. The report gains added significance since, during these five months, the Sri Lankan Government denied independent observers, including the media and human rights organizations, access to the war zone, and conducted a “war without witnesses.” This book traces the ongoing engagement of international lawyer Francis A. Boyle during the last years of the conflict. Boyle was among the very few addressing the international legal implications of the Sri Lankan Government’s grave and systematic violations of Tamil human rights while the conflict was taking place. This is the first book to develop an authoritative case for genocide against the Government of Sri Lanka under international law.
Author : Russell R. Ross
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN :
Author : Amarnath Amarasingam
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849045735
Even though Sri Lanka's protracted civil war came to a bloody conclusion in May 2009, prospects for a sustainable peace remain uncertain. The Sri Lankan army is no longer waging military campaigns and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are no longer carrying out political assassinations and suicide attacks, yet structural violence continues, and has arguably intensified since the war's end. Anti-Tamil discrimination, anti-Muslim violence, and Sinhala Buddhist majoritarianism all increased in the war's aftermath, as President Mahinda Rajapakse's government invoked its military victory over the LTTE to silence any opposition. The election of Maithripala Sirisena as president in January 2015 began to alleviate some of the worst of these post-war abuses of power, but many long-term problems will take longer to solve. This book brings together scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, history, law, religious studies and diaspora studies to critically engage issues such as post-war development, constitutional reform, ethnic and religious identity, transnational activism, and transitional justice. Through an interdisciplinary approach to post-war Sri Lanka, this volume examines the intractable and complex issues that continue to plague this war-torn island.
Author : Mohan K. Tikku
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,22 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199463503
'After the Fall' shows how Sri Lankas post-independence exercise in nation formation was beset with using language domination as an instrument of partisan power and racial memories as the way to define nationhood. That resulted in an escalating conflict through half a century of ethnic violence - giving rise to one of the worlds most fearsome militant movements and the cult of the suicide bomber. It analyzes how Eelam war four (20069), which came like a tornado crashing through all the red-lines of a war (even a guerrilla war), succeeded - and at what cost and consequences.
Author : Julio César Carasales
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Argentina
ISBN :
Author : Muttukrishna Sarvananthan
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1911307843
The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia. This interdisciplinary volume sets out to draw Sri Lanka into the field of Asian and Global History by showing how the latest wave of scholarship has explored the island as a ‘crossroads’, a place defined by its openness to movement across the Indian Ocean.Experts in the history, archaeology, literature and art of the island from c.500 BCE to c.1850 CE use Lankan material to explore a number of pressing scholarly debates. They address these matters from their varied disciplinary perspectives and diverse array of sources, critically assessing concepts such as ethnicity, cosmopolitanism and localisation, and elucidating the subtle ways in which the foreign may be resisted and embraced at the same time. The individual chapters, and the volume as a whole, are a welcome addition to the history and historiography of Sri Lanka, as well as studies of the Indian Ocean region, kingship, colonialism, imperialism, and early modernity.