Sunday February 26, 2012Short Story by Roma Tearne for Salem-News.com.
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(LONDON) - Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin, who was killed in Syria in recent days, lost an eye covering operations in Sri Lanka in 2001. Her dedication and loss to this place, and the 2009 rape and Murder of Shoba, who was better known asIsaippiriya, in Sri Lanka, a journalist with TamilNet, (Two of Sri Lanka's Foulest War Crimes) brought an unexpected response; a fictionalized short story from an author in London; it is gut-wrenching and fascinating, literary expression.
I am very pleased to introduce A Second Short Story For The Western Sponsors Of The Galle Literary Festival. The Birthday Party by author Roma Tearne, of London. This is a fictional day in the life account of a family in Sri Lanka, the country of Roma's heritage. It isn't part of our regular news, however it is more relevant than most reports as a current information piece.
Sri Lanka experienced a terrible civil war that ended in mid-2009. The Tamil population that accounts for 15-20% of the people in Sri Lanka, was decimated by the Sinhalese Buddhist government' Sri Lanka Army (SLA). Sri Lanka maintains that the people its army was sent to kill were either part of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or 'human shields' that the 'Tamil Tigers' forced into the war zones.
Many solid accounts of the final push in this war exist, they are all very consistent. The Tamil people were just slaughtered, that is the truth of what happened. There does appear to some validity to the human shield allegation, according to the UN, however that is one of the oldest tricks in the books for any government to spin while engaged in damage control after being exposed for involvement in the ethnic cleansing of civilians. The human shield allegation is a page out of Israel's war game book, that's for sure.
Tragically, terrible accounts of widespread rape and abuse are interwoven into this horror story of Genocide and state terrorism on the otherwise stunning and beautiful island nation known for many years as Ceylon. The average American, I believe, considers Buddhists among the kindest and gentlest of people, however in Sri Lanka nothing could be farther from the truth. Roma Tearne sent this to Salem-News.comto republish and I hope to bring our readers many similar pieces in the future.
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