Cage The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

Name: Cage The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
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ISBN: 9781934137543

ISBN-10: 1934137545

ISBN-13: 9781934137543

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gordon Weiss

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"An excellent account . . . scrupulously fair."—The Economist"The grandson of a man who was murdered in Auschwitz, Weiss is aware of the thin line that separates civilized societies from those that sink into collective madness governed by hatred."—The SpectatorIn the final days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, perhaps tens of thousands of civilians were killed as government forces hemmed in the last remaining Tamil Tiger rebels on a tiny sand-spit, dubbed "The Cage." Gordon Weiss, a journalist on the scene as the UN spokesman in Sri Lanka, pulls back the curtain of government misinformation to tell the full story for the first time.Charting the role of foreign influence as it…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Maps


Preface to the American Edition


Preface



The Lion's Victory



Paradise Found



Paradise Lost



The Tiger Revolt



Convoy 11



Inside the Cage



The Struggle for Truth



Managing the Siege



The Watching World



Aftermath



Postmortem


Glossary


List of Acronyms


Timeline


Dramatis Personae


Notes


Bibliography


Index