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Paradise Lost: the bombing of the Temple of the Tooth — a UNESCO World Heritage site in Sri Lanka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robin Coningham  and
Nick Lewer
Robin Coningham
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, England. Lewer, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, England.
Nick Lewer
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, England. Lewer, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP, England.
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Abstract

The bombing of the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy in 1998 provides the focus for an analysis of the political targeting of heritage in Sri Lanka.

Keywords

Sri LankaKandyterrorismBuddhist templeUNESCO
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 282 , December 1999 , pp. 857 - 866
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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