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We are glad, what is more, that there were forty-five of them, because this helped at least sixteen to return.
“It did not convince them that their government was guilty of war crimes, so that they unreservedly condemn it, or that no war crimes were committed, so that they might bask in the relief of a fair victory. Instead, they were trapped in the misery of not knowing what to believe - about their government, about their own indirect complicity in their government’s actions, or about the moral cost of their hard-won peace.”
― This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
― This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
“Perhaps, like real currency, rumour even keeps things liquid, because it does not always require you to commit to an opinion or to modify your views.”
― This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
― This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
“When the news of Prabhakaran’s death had broken, Raghavan had gotten drunk at home and wept complicated tears - for this comrades, for his estranged and cruel friend, for the vast toll of a campaign begun with mere black flags and Solignum graffiti, for the devastation of cause he still believed in, and for a fight that had somewhere gone very horribly wrong.”
― This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
― This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
“It was a strange thing to hear from a man in self-imposed exile from his homeland. On the other hand, it sounded just right from a man who had been nothing but an outsider at home. His exile had begun long before he left Sri Lanka for good.”
― This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
― This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
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