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|title=The Cage

|sort=Cage

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-0099548478

|pages=384

|publisher=Vintage

|date=May 2012

|summary=Trying to explain those harrowing images of Tamil refugees from northern Sri Lanka in 2009 was bound to be fearful and gruesome, but this history of the Tamil/Sri Lankan conflict paints a truly depressing picture of a society in turmoil, at the whim of international power games.

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The history of Ceylon, and latterly Sri Lanka has at its centre an undeniable contradiction. A nation which espoused and proclaimed peaceful Buddhism was caught in one of the bloodiest conflicts in the recent past, a conflict peppered with suicide bombings, mass killings, rapes, torture and imprisonment, and more than a hint of genocide. Gordon Weiss was intimately involved as a journalist and as the United Nations Spokesman in Sri Lanka for two years of the almost 40 years conflict, and has produced a detailed account of the background and eventual denouement of this conflict.

If you wish to read more of the physical atmosphere of both the beautiful country but also the human and personal circumstances of those who live there, then [[Love Marriage by V V Ganeshananthan]] is fictional account which sets a romance in the same desperate context.

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