![]() ![]() The IPKF’s brief involvement has received more attention from Indian historians than what Sri Lanka’s long war has gained from students of the country’s military history. ![]() ![]() More has been written in Sinhalese but whether any of these amounts to serious studies is arguable. There are also a few studies that would rank as official and semi-official histories of the different forces and corps. The few that have been written in English include several histories of the military conflict as well as a few specific studies and some memoirs. Yet, to date only a handful of books and research articles have been written on the military events of Sri Lanka’s savage internal conflict. A war of such duration and impact should have been a goldmine to military historians and researchers, yielding countless papers, scholarly articles and monographs. It was also one of the most destructive insurgencies in the region, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of combatants and countless civilians and destroying property worth billions of rupees. Sri Lanka’s separatist war was one of the longest insurgencies of modern times. ![]()
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