
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
The History Hour
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What's Your Stand on the War Crimes?
He was the man who really controlled, strategically, the fighting at the end of the war. And and that had to come from a mine set at the very top. So whenever y your stand on the allegations of war crimes which were made at both sides in o nine, it does mark a really significant turning point for srilanke. For so long, the government simply didn't hold sway over large parts of the north and e east. To day, we are in a position where there huge street protests against the very people who won that war.
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