Northern Elections: A litmus test for democracy or Tamil national aspirations?

BY NIRMANUSAN BALASUNDARAM-21 SEPTEMBER 2013

Just a few hours after the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon announced the forthcoming provincial elections in Sri Lanka to be an important opportunity for political reconciliation in the country, a terrifying attack took place against the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) candidate, Mrs Ananthi Sasitharan at Chuzhipuram in Jaffna at approximately 12:45 am.

The incident was firstly reported via twitter by the Jaffna Press Club:

y be a testing ground that would prove Tamil people’s undying resilience and collective will to be free.

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Nirmanusan Balasundaram is an exiled journalist and a human rights defender. He holds an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European University Center for Peace Studies in Austria.

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