Only Man is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri LankaBeneath the superficial charm of Sri Lanka brews a complex struggle over ethnicity which threatens to turn this beautiful land into another Lebanon. This is an account of a society consumed by the hatreds of race and class, the brutalities of political violence and the quest for identity. |
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