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Alan Keenan is the Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies and a visiting assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of Democracy in Question..
With world attention now focused on the tsunami and its devastating effects, the story of the Bindunuwewa massacre is easy to forget.
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