''Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War'' is a book written by the British journalist Frances Harrison, a former

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Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

and former Amnesty Head of news. The book deals with thousands of

Sri Lankan Tamil Sri Lankan Tamils ( or ), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, live in significant numbers in the Eastern Pr ...

civilians who were killed, caught in the crossfire during the war. This and the government's strict media blackout would leave the world unaware of their suffering in the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The books also highlights the failure of the

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, whose staff left before the final offensive started.

References

External links

Still Counting the Dead Website
2012 non-fiction books Sri Lankan Civil War books Portobello Books books {{Asia-hist-book-stub