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In January 2005, immediately after the tsunami which struck the island on 26 December 2004, a rumour gathered force in the southern part of Sri Lanka. The leader of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Prabhakaran, was dead. He had died when a church on the shoreline at Mullaitivu in the north of the island had been swept away by the force of the tsunami. But efforts to cover this up went awry, according to the rumour, when it was discovered that Oxfam had imported a special gold coffin for his funeral — an ostentatious object that is hard to move around without drawing unwanted attention.
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Amarasuriya, H., Spencer, J. (2012). NGOs, the State and ‘Cultural Values’: Imagining the Global in Sri Lanka. In: Howell, J. (eds) Global Matters for Non-Governmental Public Action. Non-Governmental Public Action. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284730_6
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