Sri Lankan Civil War

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Anil's ghost is an acclaimed novel written by a Sri Lankan born Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The book focuses on major issues of civil war and its effects, human rights, and the nature of one's shifting identity. In this essay I will focus on the way in which the main character Anil Tissera's surroundings affect her cultural identity throughout the story. An article written by Kara Somerville in 2008 provides an interesting insight on the issue of transnational identity, and how different

Living in the tropical island of Sri Lanka meant heavy exposure to mosquitoes and Dengue fever is a horrifying yet rather common disease that most Sri Lankans suffer from at least once in their lifetime. I remember when it was my turn. I was diagnosed at a time where dengue fever was at a peak high in Sri Lanka and my parents struggled to find me a room at a hospital because so many patients were admitted due to dengue

information fed to them and unfortunately, in most cases, all bits of media is taken as the whole truth. The ways in which media impacts society to a great extent are through the facts it chooses to reveal, as recently seen in the case of the Tamil war in Sri Lanka. The tone in which it is presented such as the

traumatic events. Anil’s Ghost is set in a time of political conflict in Sri Lanka, revealing unfolding mysteries, murders, and never-ending brutality. Each character uncovers the truth about one another, taking pieces of his or her own life, to reflect upon various hardships. During the civil war era, the protagonist, Anil Tissera, a high specialized anthropologist is sent to uncover several murders occurring in her country of Sri Lanka. During her various discoveries, she reflects back on her

Sri Lanka’s Continual Civil War The ethnic tension between Sri Lanka’s majority and minority populations, the Sinhalese who are mostly Buddhists being the majority and the minority being mostly Hindu and are called Tamil, has been going on for many of years. Finally in 1983 the ethnic tensions finally spilled over into civil war. The civil war has been mostly between the government of Sri Lanka and the militant organization called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The LTTE are fighting for

country of Sri Lanka was engaged in a civil war for more than 25 years. The most basic reason is the conflict that arose between the Sinhalese and Tamil citizens, but it’s more than that. In 1948 Sri Lanka gained its independence from Great Britain. Before independence was gained, the island was dominated by the Sinhalese speakers, which were deemed to be on the island since 500s BCE. Also, there were mostly Buddhist Sinhalese, three million of them, and about 300,000 Hindu Tamils. Sri Lankan people

minority groups. Unfortunately, not all countries live up to par with our human rights. Such as Sri Lanka, a small island located off the south coast of India, surrounded by the Indian Ocean. This beautiful country beholds some of the greatest entities such as its prosperous tea plantations. However, beneath this beauty lies a tremendous amount of corruption and chauvinism. From the time when Sri Lanka received independence from the British colonies, the population was split into two different

stance there is always a different side of the story to it that one must look into to truly see why they decide to make these certain decisions. As for the Sri Lankan pop star M.I.A., also known as Maya, whom does whatever she pleases by designing her own clothing and writing her own music. M.I.A. develops a political stance on the Sri Lankan situation; and tries to let the public know of what is happening outside of the United States through her music. In my perspective I think Maya has done the

From its inception in 1976, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, have launched a campaign to form a separate independent state for the Tamils in the Northern and Eastern part of Sri Lanka (SATP). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a report in 2008 stating the LTTE to be “among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world” (FBI). According to the FBI report, the LTTE perfected the use of suicide bombers, invented the suicide belt, became the first