After Two Decades of War, Sri Lanka Is on the Mend. Ray Wilkinson.
by Wilkinson, Ray; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 65Global Issues. Publisher: Refugees, 2003ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Chronology -- Historical | Human rights workers | Humanitarian assistance -- Sri Lanka | Internally displaced persons | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka) | Refugees -- Sri Lankan | Return migration | Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War -- 1983 | Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War -- 1983 -- Peace and mediation | United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Hundreds of villages and towns were literally flattened, mainly on the northern Jaffna Peninsula, the neighboring Vanni region and in the east of the country. The world paid only fleeting attention to this obscure internal struggle, but an estimated 65,000 persons were killed in conflicts which ranged from small-scale hit-and-run raids to massive head-on pitched battles. A new form of warfare became commonplace, the precursor of a worldwide phenomenon--the suicide bomber." (REFUGEES) This article describes Sri Lanka's battle during two decades of civil war which killed 65,000 people and forced civilians to leave their homes. Now that the conflict is over, people are starting to return to Sri Lanka hoping for peace.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: After Two Decades of War, Sri Lanka Is on the Mend, Vol. 1 No.130, 2003; pp. 4+.
"Hundreds of villages and towns were literally flattened, mainly on the northern Jaffna Peninsula, the neighboring Vanni region and in the east of the country. The world paid only fleeting attention to this obscure internal struggle, but an estimated 65,000 persons were killed in conflicts which ranged from small-scale hit-and-run raids to massive head-on pitched battles. A new form of warfare became commonplace, the precursor of a worldwide phenomenon--the suicide bomber." (REFUGEES) This article describes Sri Lanka's battle during two decades of civil war which killed 65,000 people and forced civilians to leave their homes. Now that the conflict is over, people are starting to return to Sri Lanka hoping for peace.
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