Dr. Rajani Thiranagama was killed on 21st September 1989 after three years of intense activity in Jaffna. During this time she played a leading role in the University Teachers for Human Rights, Jaffna - UTHR(J) - and co-authored The Broken Palmyra. In Palmyra Fallen, Rajan Hoole - a fellow member of the UTHR(J) and the author of Arrogance of Power - deals with the painful experience of ordinary people and the initiatives Rajani and her colleagues undertook to give hope to a benumbed, betrayed and bruised community in a period beset by terror and counter-terror. The Introduction identifies the country's plunge into communalism, violence and war with the Citizenship Act of 1948. Other key concerns of the book are how the Tamil community lost its way into caste and sectarianism, the country's road to impunity, the political and economic costs of colonisation and the searing final months of the war concluded in 2009. Blurb source- https://www.colombotelegraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/UTHR.pdf