The rise & fall of the LTTE

Sri Lanka and the Defeat of the LTTE

KM De Silva

Penguin Books

Rs. 399

Pg 352

South Asia for most part has been a troubled region. Most nations in the Indian subcontinent are dealing with the problem of terror fuelled by separatist tendencies. While India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are dealing with terror groups fanning separatist tendencies, Nepal and parts of Eastern India are dealing with Red terror that seeks to dismantle the constitutional structure existing in these places. In short, most countries in South Asia are dealing with one form of terror or the other. KM De Silva in his book Sri Lanka and the Defeat of the LTTE discusses the role and nature of the terror group in the regional safety, its decisive defeat in 2009 at the hands of the Sri Lankan Army and the role played by Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Silva is an academician and had held positions in universities of Ceylon and Peradeniya, and, thus, has been in a fair position to see and analyse the political situation prevailing in Sri Lanka. He was also a foundation director and executive director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. The academic background of the author is reflected in the critical analysis of the role played by political parties in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu, and, of

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