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

/ / ASAA books, South Asia Studies, Sri Lanka

鈥溾�ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee鈥� (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

/ / 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

/ / 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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