{"product_id":"9781934137543-the-cage","title":"The Cage","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers\u003cbr\u003eAn incisive first account of the formation, history, and bloody dissolution of the rebel Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Cage\u003c\/i\u003e is a tightly written and clear-eyed narrative about one of the most disturbing human dramas of recent years. A riveting, cautionary tale about the consequences of unchecked political power in a country at war. A must-read.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eJon Lee Anderson\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e staff writer and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fall of Baghdad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the closing days of the thirty-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, according to United Nations estimates, as government forces hemmed in the last remaining Tamil Tiger rebels on a tiny sand spit, dubbed \"The Cage.\" Gordon Weiss, a journalist and UN spokesperson in Sri Lanka during the final years of the war, pulls back the curtain of government misinformation to tell the full story for the first time. Tracing the role of foreign influence as it converged with a history of radical Buddhism and ethnic conflict, \u003ci\u003eThe Cage\u003c\/i\u003e is a harrowing portrait of an island paradise torn apart by war and the root causes and catastrophic consequences of a revolutionary uprising caught in the crossfire of international power jockeying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGordon Weiss\u003c\/strong\u003e has lived in New York and worked in numerous conflict and natural disaster zones including the Congo, Uganda, Darfur, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Syria, and Haiti. Employed by the United Nations for over two decades, he continues to consult on war, extremism, peace building, and human rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55421437149558,"sku":"9781934137543","price":17.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33131142.jpg?v=1742889545","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781934137543-the-cage","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}