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|title=The Cage

|sort=Cage

|publisher=Vintage

|date=May 2012

|summary=Trying to explain those harrowing images of Tamil refugees from northern Sri Lanka in 2009 was bound to be fearful and gruesome, but this history of the Tamil/Sri Lankan conflict paints a truly depressing picture of a society in turmoil, at the whim of international power games.

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The history of Ceylon, and latterly Sri Lanka has at its centre an undeniable contradiction. A nation which espoused and proclaimed peaceful Buddhism was caught in one of the bloodiest conflicts in the recent past, a conflict peppered with suicide bombings, mass killings, rapes, torture and imprisonment, and more than a hint of genocide. Gordon Weiss was intimately involved as a journalist and as the United Nations Spokesman in Sri Lanka for two years of the almost 40 years conflict, and has produced a detailed account of the background and eventual denouement of this conflict.