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Sri Lanka Briefing #1
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English - December 12, 2008 17:00 - 1 hour - 13.7 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsNews news saja india samma mumbai pakistan terrorist attacks aseem chhabra books south asia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
According to The New York Times, "With Sri Lanka's military making its deepest push into rebel territory in a decade, Asia's longest-running civil war appears to be edging closer to a military solution — though one that has already extracted a high cost for the divided country's civilians." Are 25 years of war nearing an end? And at what price?
This is the first in a series of SAJA webcasts.
Featuring: Ahilan Kadirgamar, spokesperson for the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum; Vasuki Nesiah, director of International Affairs and Brown University; Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
Moderator: V.V. Ganeshananthan, SAJA VP and author of "Love Marriage," a novel set in Sri Lanka and the diaspora. Questions/comments: [email protected] (subject=webcast)