Sri Lanka – War Stories
Sri Lanka War Stories explores the darker side of Sri Lanka during the last 22 years. In 115 colour and black and white photographs and 2000 words it depicts the harsh brutality of civil wars in both the country’s north and east (1986 until 2008) and in the south during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The tragedy is set amongst the soft edges of a lush landscape, an often charming people and the harsh reality of civil wars.
Hardback. 150 pages. 270mm x 210mm. £20.00.
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The intransigence of the Sri Lankan state and the failure of both Sinhalese and Tamil political imagination has locked Sri Lanka into over two decades of civil war. This, compounded with social unrest and repression, has led to enormous pain and suffering amoungst our people and to the destruction of our social fabric. It affects the way we live, the way we love and the way we interact with one another. Violence has become the first means of resolving disputes, and tolerance of violence a fact of everyday life.
DR Radhika Coomaraswamy
United Nations Special Representative
for Children and Armed Conflict
