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The Youth Bulge.(World Affairs)(relation of youth population and civil war in Sri Lanka)(Brief article)
Byline: Stefan Theil
And The Coming Rebel Defeats
Colombo touted its anti-insurgency tactics as the force that finally ended Sri Lanka's civil war. But demographics may have played an even larger part, according to Gunnar Heinsohn, a German sociologist who says that nations with an oversupply of frustrated young men (a "youth bulge") are more prone to violence. During the peak years of Sri Lanka's slaughter, the country had three or four sons of fighting age per family, and the population's average age was 20 years old--similar to Gaza and Afghanistan today. There were ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The Youth Bulge.(World Affairs)(relation of youth population and...