How wars end In Sri Lanka

The World

Monica Toft has studied how wars end. She’s author of the book, ‘The Fog of Peace’. She tells anchor Marco Werman that although Sri Lanka’s government declared an official end to its 27 year old civil war with Tamil rebels this week, the government’s triumphal may be unwarranted.

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