Sri Lanka and the Defeat of the LTTE

The most wide-ranging analysis so far on the LTTE and its violent legacy.Selling Points A perceptive new study of terrorism in Sri Lanka by a respected scholar which turns the spotlight on the LTTE. Extensively researched and loaded with perceptive insights the book. In this comprehensive and authoritative study of terrorism in Sri Lanka K.M. de Silva turns the spotlight on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its role in Sri Lanka’s upheavals over the last few decades. While tracing the emergence of this separatist group and the events that led to its recent collapse de Silva also seeks to explore the complex relationship between the so-called moderates in Sri Lankan Tamil politics and the Tamil terrorist groups. What emerges is a layered portrait of the dynamics of Sri Lanka’s political system. About the Author K.M. De Silva held the chair of Sri Lanka History at the University of Ceylon later the University of Peradeniya from 1969 to 1995. He was foundation director and executive director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies Colombo/Kandy from 1982-2008. Among his several books are A History of Sri Lanka Managing Ethnic Tensions in Multi-Ethnic Societies Sri Lanka 1880-1985 and Regional Powers and Small State Security India and Sri Lanka 1977-1990. He has edited two volumes of Sri Lanka British Documents on the End of Empire series Conflict and Violence in South Asia Bangladesh India Pakistan and Sri Lanka and Pursuit of Peace in Sri Lanka Past Failures and Future Prospects. He also wrote Reaping the Whirlwind Ethnic Politics Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka.