The Cage

The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

De: Gordon Weiss

Narrado por: James Adams

In the closing days of the 30-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, according to UN 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, The Cage 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.

Gordon Weiss has lived in New York and worked in numerous conflict and natural disaster zones including Bosnia, Afghanistan, Darfur, Pakistan, Congo, and Haiti. Employed by the United Nations for over 12 years, Weiss is now a writer, speaker, and analyst of international affairs as well as a founding advisor to the International Crimes Evidence Project, currently investigating war crimes.

©2012 Gordon Weiss (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Tragic and sobering

This book is well written, controversial, but endeavours to provide a sobering picture on the 30 year civil war in Sri Lanka.

Excellent overview of Sri Lanka's troubles

This is a well researched account of the Tamil conflict. It sets this in the context of post independence political development.

Powerful.

A deeply disturbing history. This book is helped by two introductory chapters that give us Sri Lankan history from the beginning.
The author is a thoroughly familiar former insider. He provides both exhaustive facts and well-reasoned analysis.
And I quite enjoyed the narrator, in his very proper British style.

A Forgotten Tragedy

This book was definitely worth the listen albeit at 1.2 speed. Throughout the years I had heard snippets of troubling news from Sri Lanka back to the 1980s. This book filled the holes and was well researched. However, as is true with many journalists who try to be historians, the author digresses into his left of center globalist potshots on occasion, especially at the closing chapters. Nonetheless, it’s worth your time.

Great narration

This book gives you only the “what happened” with little analysis beyond that. It’s essentially like a very long news report