Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War
Book Details
Author(s)Frances Harrison
PublisherPortobello Books
ISBN / ASIN1846274699
ISBN-139781846274695
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank687,629
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The tropical island of Sri Lanka is a paradise for tourists, but in 2009 it became a hell for its Tamil minority, as decades of civil war between the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and the government reached its bloody climax. Caught in the crossfire were hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren, doctors, farmers, fishermen, nuns and other civilians. And the government ensured through a strict media blackout that the world was unaware of their suffering. Now, a UN enquiry has called for war-crimes investigations. Those crimes are recounted here to the wider world for the first time in sobering, shattering detail.
