The Prabhakaran saga: the rise and fall of an Eelam warrior/ S. Murari.

Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; The Accord That Failed; 1 -- When Colombo Was in Flames; 2 -- Uneasy Peace in Jaffna; 3 -- The Deep Ethnic Divide; 4 -- Sympathy for Tamils, Not for Their Cause; 5 -- Delhi Cracks the Whip on Prabhakaran; 6 -- Battle for Jaffna and Operation Food Drop; 7 -- India's Vietnam; 8 -- IPKF's Strategy; 9 -- Jaffna under IPKF Rule; 10 -- Progress to North-east Provincial Council; 11 -- Enters Premadasa ... and IPKF Is Caught in a Bind; 12 -- IPKF Gets Quit Notice; 13 -- Jaffna--A Town in Transition; 14 -- Murder, Most Foul. 15 -- Thondaman Averts a Crisis16 -- Uneasy Peace in North, Reign of Terror in South; 17 -- End of a Misadventure; Eelam War II; 18 -- Thirteen-month Honeymoon Ends; 19 -- The VIP Treatment; 20 -- Pathmanabha Murder; 21 -- Dismissal of Karunanidhi Government; 22 -- The Turning Point; 23 -- The Impeachment Drama; 24 -- India Hits Back, Gets Isolated; 25 -- Assassination of Premadasa; 26 -- Wijetunga's Uninspiring Tenure; Chandrika Era; 27 -- Short-lived Hope of Peace; 28 -- From PM to President; 29 -- Short-lived Truce; 30 -- The Battle for Jaffna; 31 -- The Bloody Aftermath in Colombo. 32 -- The Peace Package Diluted33 -- The Mullaitivu Attack; 34 -- Unceasing Battles; 35 -- Chandrika Gets a Fresh Lease of Life; 36 -- The Siege of Jaffna; 37 -- Devolution Package Falls Through; 38 -- Short-lived PA Government; The Long and Uneasy Truce; 39 -- United National Party Wins on Peace Plank; 40 -- Prabhakaran in the Dock; 41 -- Prabhakaran Puts a Cat among Pigeons; 42 -- Peace Talks Begin; 43 -- Ups and Downs in Talks; 44 -- LTTE Opts Out, but Ranil Does Not Give Up; 45 -- A Missed Opportunity; 46 -- Chandrika Steps In, Norway Steps Out; 47 -- Karuna Splits LTTE; 48 -- Yet Another Split Verdict. 49 -- When Tsunami United Lanka50 -- Post-tsunami Unity Crumbles; The Last Phase; 51 -- Mahinda Wins, with a Little Help from the LTTE; 52 -- Undeclared War; 53 -- Operation Watershed; 54 -- Accord Eludes Geneva II; 55 -- Mahinda Strengthens His Hands; 56 -- Goodbye Bala!; 57 -- LTTE Takes to Wings; 58 -- Tit-for-tat Air Raids; 59 -- Echo in Tamil Nadu; 60 -- Lanka Ends Truce; 61 -- Tentative Moves for Solution; 62 -- LTTE Offers Truce, Colombo Spurns It; 63 -- Prabhakaran's Last Hurrah; 64 -- LTTE Citadels Fall; 65 -- The Final Battle; 66 -- The Bitter End; Epilogue; Index; About the Author.