Truth a Casulaty in Sri Lanka's War  

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Montlake, Simon

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Far Eastern Economic Review vol. 172 no. 5 (Jun. 2009), page 13.
Topik: Sri Lanka; Tamil Tiger; War

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To drive between Kilinochchi and the coastal strip where Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers recently staged a final, doomed stand is to enter a wasteland scoured of humanity. Mile after mile of fallow cropland gives way to villages of roofless houses, cratered yards and charred vehicles. The only signs of life, apart from clumps of listless cows, were military posts our armored personnel carrier sped past, trailing ochre dust. It was hard to imagine these villages as living, breathing communities. After the Tigers abandoned their former capital Kilinochchi in January, they retreated eastward. The villagers went too, either out of fear or solidarity, and the war front advanced, trapping over a quarter of a million civilians behind enemy lines.

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