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For three decades, Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict, and the resilient among them still dared to hope. But the next five years changed everything. Rohini Mohan's searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime survival to reveal the creeping violence of the everyday. When city-bred Sarva is dragged off the streets by state forces, his middle-aged mother, Indra, searches for him through the labyrinthine Sri Lankan bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Mugil, a former child soldier, deserts the Tigers in the thick of war to protect her family. Having survived, they struggle to live as the Sri Lankan state continues to attack minority Tamils and Muslims, frittering away the era of peace. Sarva flees the country, losing his way - and almost his life - in a bid for asylum. Mugil stays, breaking out of the refugee camp to rebuild her family and an ordinary life in the village she left as a girl. But in her tumultuous world, desires, plans, and people can be snatched away in a moment. The Seasons of Trouble is a startling, brutal, yet beau tifully written debut from a prize-winning journal ist. It is a classic piece of reportage, five years in the making, and a trenchant, compassionate examina tion of the corrosive effect of conflict on a people. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War by Rohini Mohan (Verso, $26.95).
Didn’t know Sri Lanka was a mess as the result of a civil war that last nearly 30 years and only “ended” in 2009? You’re not alone.
In The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War, Al-Jazeera America journalist Rohini Mohan follows the lives of three people, all members of the Tamil community, who are trying to rebuild their lives following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers by government forces.
The survivors are shattered, but sturdy; they are also faced with a government that is determined to “dilute” the Tamil threat by dispersing and disempowering the community, so that they will never again face demands for an independent state. It is certainly a cultural genocide, and there are indications that the government’s actions may rise to the level of a literal genocide as well.
Mohan’s journalistic chops are top-notch, which makes this a well-researched and well-written, work on a topic about which we haven’t heard nearly enough in the West.
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