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Paradise Afire. Volume 1
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Text © Adrien Fontanellaz and Tom Cooper 2018
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Roots of the Conflict
2 The Sri Lankan Armed Forces
3 Rising Insurgencies
4 Black July
5 Opposing Forces – The Big Five
6 Opposing Forces: The Security Forces
7 War Escalation
8 Operation Liberation
Bibliography
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the authors
Note:
In order to simplify the use of this book, all names, locations and
geographic designations are as provided in
The Times World Atlas,
or other
traditionally accepted major sources of reference, as of the time of the events
described. For reasons of simplicity, genuine designations for
Soviet/Russian-made weapons used in this book are mentioned once, and
then their ASCC (or ‘NATO’) codes are used instead.
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