SHORT FUSE IN SRI LANKA

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: December 4, 2005 | Copyright information

WESTERNERS ARE kept aware of postcolonialist conflicts in Kashmir, Israel-Palestine, Rwanda, and Sudan, but the decades-long conflict on the island nation of Sri Lanka between a Sinhalese Buddhist majority and the Tamil minority often seems a tragedy the West would rather ignore. Recent events there suggest, however, that Sri Lanka desperately needs help from international peace brokers if it is to avoid lapsing back into a bloody internecine war that has been suspended since a 2002 ceasefire.

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