In Sri Lanka A Victor’s Peace, Ana Pararajasingham, provides a perspective on events as they unfolded following the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war in May 2009.
This book is a collection of articles by the author published between September 2009 and August 2019 in various journals covering events in Asia and the Pacific.
Ana Pararajasingham was Director Programmes with the Switzerland based, Centre for Just Peace and Democracy (CJPD) between 2007 and 2009. He is the editor of Sri Lanka: 60 Years of “Independence” and Beyond published in 2009 and author of Sri Lanka’s Endangered Peace Process and the Way Forward published in 2007.
Events in post-war Sri Lanka have been underpinned by three distinct themes: Colombo’s pursuit of a ‘victor’s peace’; Beijing’s determination to strengthen the Beijing-Colombo axis and New Delhi’s and Washington&r