Mariya Baskalin hangs laundry at her bombed out home in Sri Lanka's north. She has been home a year, but hasn't the money to repair her home.
Mariya Baskalin hangs laundry at her bombed out home in Sri Lanka's north. She has been home a year, but hasn't the money to repair her home. Photo: Ben Doherty
Australians will not tolerate cruelty to animals. Less clearly defined is our tolerance for cruelty towards people, writes Gordon Weiss.
AUSTRALIANS will not tolerate cruelty to animals. Less clear is our tolerance for bestiality towards people. Or so one might think from the stony silence after a British documentary aired on Australian TV last week. The film proved that Sri Lanka's ''rescue'' of hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians in 2009 was a bloody and cruel affair. Read more: 
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Human suffering comes second place to sacred cows

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cow2The reaction to last week's Four Corners report on the Sri Lankan massacre did not draw the same response as scenes from an Indonesian abbatoir. Source: AdelaideNow

THERE can be no better proof that people care more about brown cows than they do about brown people than the reaction to last week's report on the massacre's in Sri Lanka. Last month, the same program broadcast distressing scenes of slaughter in an Indonesian abattoir.
The outrage was immediate, with letters' pages across the nation full of violent denunciations of the appalling way the beasts were treated.        Full Story>>>