From Spices to Suicide Bombers. A study of power, politics and...
None of the shocks that have hit Sri Lanka since the British left in 1948 - including the devastation of December 2004 - could have been foreseen by the people of the island, once a Garden of Eden in the Indian Ocean. Dr Mahen Tampoe`s speciality is management, and here he paints a vivid picture of a mismanaged state - a nation united by its colonisers, then split apart by racial discrimination, internecine strife, suicide bombers, dispossession and undeserved poverty. What on earth (it certainly wasn`t in heaven) made the newly independent government of the 1950s establish the Buddhist/Sinhalese group as the dominant element, relegating the Tamils of the north, and the English language, to second-class status? Why Ceylon went wrong, and...
Дата выхода: январь 2006
