Reviewed in the IISS journal Survival 'The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers' by Gordon Weiss, Pub. Bodley Head 2011. The author wasa UN officilA with the Tamil Tigers at the end and the reviewer is impressed:
..vivid and well researched...Sri Lanka has done important things right, including a health and education record that are almost unmatched in the developing world.
I was struck by the reviewers comments on political violence generally:
When everyone in a country believes his community risks annihilation at the hands of a desperate and implacable foe, the result is a widespread willingness to use whatever means that can the threat.
An aside. There is a RFI on the LTTE:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=9697