Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War
A War, Nonfiction, Travel book. --and in fact, we humans need conflict just like we need language, to...
Armed with a map, a motorcycle, an infectious sense of humor, and a dim understanding of Sri Lanka’s war, author, artist, and adventurer Mark Stephen Meadows arrives in the country intending to have, as it were, afternoon tea with terrorists. Figuring that the first step to solving a problem is understanding it, he journeys north into the war zone, interviewing terrorists, generals, and heroin dealers along the way.He discovers an island of beauty and abundance ground down by three decades of war. As he travels north through Colombo, Kandy, and the damaged city of Jaffna, Meadows gives his riveting take on the war. Known for child conscription and drawn-out torture methods, he explains, the Tamil Tigers also invented suicide bombing and were the first to lace together terrorists and financiers into international...
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--and in fact, we humans need conflict just like we need language, to help us define who we are. Mark Stephen Meadows, Tea Time with Terrorists: A Motorcycle Journey into the Heart of Sri Lanka's Civil War // The secret of life is to have no fear. Fela Mark Stephen Meadows, Tea Time with Terrorists // The British burned much of what had been categorized and reduced Aluviharas librariesmany of the primary (most pure) teachings of the Buddhato ashes. In talking with one of the administrators about it, I asked how much was left, and as a response he raised the palms of his hands and shrugged. I discovered later that some few texts were reclaimed, and then hidden, but the vast majority were lost.25 Which was the British intent. Doing so softened up the Sri Lankan cultural memory and, therefore, reasons for resistance to the British invasion. But this...
See my review at http://newpages.com/bookreviews/2010-... I felt like the author didn't really know which direction to take this book. Some parts were direct statements and analysis of various "independence" groups & individuals in the Sri Lankan civil war (namely, the Tamil Tigers), other parts were larger connections to "global terrorism" and/or the War on Terror and still others were just... Read on my way to Christmas time with Adam, Maja, Carl and Chloe. Lots of air time and thank you, George, for the recommendation. I really liked his bigger question--what really and who really is a "terrorist" and why have we crafted such an "us/them" world, especially encouraged by George Bush's 9-11 reaction. And I like the way he...
