Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Monday, November 4, 2013

Sri Lanka’s hidden genocide

Four years after the Tamil Tigers were routed in Sri Lanka, the catalogue of government atrocities is just beginning.


A general view of the abandoned conflict zone where Tamil Tigers separatists made their last stand before their defeat by the Sri Lankan army is seen in northeastern Sri Lanka on May 23, 2009.
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A general view of the abandoned conflict zone where Tamil Tigers separatists made their last stand before their defeat by the Sri Lankan army is seen in northeastern Sri Lanka on May 23, 2009.

The Toronto Star

By:  Columnist, Published on Mon Nov 04 2013
In the hospitality of war
We left them their dead
To remember us by
Archilochus, Greek poet-soldier, 7th century BC
VAVUNIYA, SRI LANKA—Sri Lanka is an island nation in the shape of a tear drop, poignantly.