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Sri Lanka, Fear of Being 'Disappeared'
Under thick tropical rains on a rutted country
road, a bus packed with ethnic Tamil families screeched to a stop here
in eastern Sri Lanka. At a heavily fortified government checkpoint, the
families were ordered off the bus.
'Just a true Canadian': alleged Tiger bagman
Prapa Thambithurai lives in a suburban duplex north of Toronto, near the looping roller coaster tracks and fake theme park mountains of Canada's Wonderland."I'm just a true Canadian," is how he described himself.
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Fighting Flares in Civil War, Key Buddhist Shuns Nonviolence
Draped in his burnt-orange robe, Athurliye
Rathana strolled onto the veranda of a posh hotel here one recent evening
and an entire wedding party adorned in fine silks knelt as one, in a gesture
of respect and honor to one of the country's best-known monks.
Sri Lanka's wounded Tigers growl at Delhi
India's hosting of Sri Lankan Army chief
Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka in Delhi this month has evoked an angry
growl from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Castigating India
for giving the Lankan army chief a "state welcome", the LTTE
has warned India against committing "the historic blunder" of
propping up "the Sinhala war machine".
'We are better off without the LTTE'
S C Chandrahasan is the son of Samuvel Selvnayagam, a Tamil leader who was known as the Mahatma Gandhi of Sri Lanka.
Need for Increased Alertness Against LTTE
An official statement issued by the headquarters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on March 11, 2008 on the high-profile visit of Lt.Gen.Sarath Fonseka, the chief of the Sri Lankan army and the architect of the successful counter-terrorism operations by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, to India in the first week of March,2008, is an indicator of the desperation of the LTTE and its bitterness against the government of India.
Tigers
Get Ready to Face the Mechanized Infantry of the Army in North
An important militaristic development is unfolding in the Northern theatre
of war!
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Dude, Where is the Roadmap... to Peace?
Politics, as we all know, make strange bedfellows. Thanks to the electorate that is fragmented along the religious, regional, economic, ethnic, linguistic and ideological lines, this bed-hopping becomes a necessary evil to bring some sort of stability in governance. Or an unnecessary evil that leads to perpetual bickering, blackmailing and chaos.
The Monsters that devour children
Seen through rose-colored glasses, everything will look rosy for sure. Tigerland, the land of milk and honey behind the pearly gates of Omanthai, is no exception. It is a paradise where people live in peace and harmony. So claim the LTTE supporters living in foreign countries, even though none of them are ready to go to heaven, from their supposed hellish western life!
So obviously, those who see no evil of LTTE, will speak no evil of it. They have nothing but praise!
Waiting for the Second Coming of India
Talking to the National Press Club in US, late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau observed "Living next to you is like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."
The man who'd been a pain in the rear to the US with his leanings towards Russia and Cuba should know a thing or two about being a neighbour to the real beast.
Like Canada, we Sri Lankans are geographically thrown in the backyard of our one and only neighbour. But, unlike Canada, we have to be careful not to be a pain in the rear and disturb the sleeping giant.
An Oxymoron? or an Urban Myth?
It was not long ago that not a single week passed by without the headlines blaring about the foreign dignitaries and diplomats meeting the 'political leadership' of LTTE to talk about, among many other things, 'talks about talks'. Those adventurous Indiana Jones types blazed the trail in the wanni jungles to find 'peace', as if it was buried in an ark inside the heavily fortified bunker of der Fuehrer. Unfortunately for the usual suspects, Akashis and Solheims, an audience by der Fuehrer was always denied.
It is no secret that military regimes are heavy handed in crushing any uprising. The despots everywhere don't tolerate dissent as if the power is their birthright. These 'electile' dysfunctional despots use oppression as viagra to prolong their stay in power. Even the fact that some of these uncrowned tyrants had to run for their lives at the end, even facing prison sentences and at times cruel death, doesn't deter the current ones from exercising the absolute power. Torture camps and mass graves are the byproducts of the corruption of this absolute power.
