Webster Groves, Missouri, United States of America
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    The End Days of the Fourth Eelam War: Sri Lanka's Denialist Challenge to the Laws of War
    Ethics and International Affairs 36 (1): 65-89. 2022.
    During the final months of Sri Lanka's 2006–2009 civil war, Sri Lankan armed forces engaged in a disproportionate and indiscriminate shelling campaign against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which culminated in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. Conventional wisdom suggests that Sri Lanka undermined international humanitarian law. Significantly, however, the Sri Lankan government did not directly challenge such law or attempt to justify its departure from it. Rather, it invented…Read more