Winning the Peace

New Republic by Michael Schaffer | May. 21, 2009 (Opinion)

After a quarter century of bloodshed and somewhere over 80,000 deaths, Sri Lanka's civil war didn't really settle anything. It began in 1983 in a flawed-but-functioning postcolonial democracy whose leaders never seemed quite up to the task of integrating different ethnicities into one nation. It apparently ended on Sunday, in a still-flawed, newly-swaggering postwar democracy where that basic task of integration remains even more elusive. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - May 21, 2009 - 2:44 AM PDT
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - May 21, 2009 - 2:44 AM PDT

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 by Kenneth Sibbett - May. 21, 2009

While it's not known exactly what the final days where like,I suspect the civilians where an after thought. A well written piece considering reporters are barred from being there.

This has been just another forgotten conflict among the many around the world.

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