THE WAR THAT WASN’T LIVE
SRI LANKA DECLARED VICTORY IN ITS WAR AGAINST THE TAMIL TIGERS FIVE YEARS AGO—BUT THERE’S A LOT COLOMBO HAS TO ANSWER FOR.
BY FRANCES HARRISON.-MAY 13 2014
It’s been five years since the civil war in Sri Lanka was declared over, but P. J. still can’t escape the images of horror even in his sleep: “I dream of fleeing, of being surrounded by the Army, of dead bodies and people suffering. It all comes back to me. My mind is stuck at the end of the war and I can’t move on.”
