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...history, and it's impossible to keep a straight face as you drive down the posh Lodi Road (named in honor of a dynasty that was routed by a small Mughal force in 1526) up to the gorgeous Safdarjang's Tomb (built for a Prime Minister who started a civil war during which Delhi was plundered by invaders), and continue along the even-posher Prithviraj Road (named after the city's last Hindu ruler, who lost his kingdom in 1192). Delhi's kings lost their thrones and heads with remarkable regularity, a phenomenon that is still repeated every few years...
Even with these changes, the legislation still does not strike the proper balance between national security and civil liberties, Verba said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday...
...hung with faded photographs: her husband, shot and burned in his fishing boat by the Sri Lankan navy; her two nephews, Tamil Tiger guerrillas killed in battle; and 17 relatives, including 13-year-old daughter May Linda, washed away by the tsunami. As Sri Lanka once more flirts with civil war, Rosa expects she will soon be adding one more picture to her gallery of ghosts: her 23-year-old son, Anthony. He joined the Tigers five years ago and she hasn't seen him since. "I remember golden days here when I was a girl," she says. "Playing...
...with the consequences of such mutual intransigence. Mullaitivu, at the end of a spit off Sri Lanka's northeast coast, was once a village of red-tiled bungalows, purple bougainvillea and powdery white shores, where Tamil boatmen lived by shrimp-fishing and smuggling coconut whisky to India. But when civil war broke out in 1983 between the Sinhalese-dominated government to the south and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) based in the north and east, Mullaitivu wound up on the front line. The village fell first to the Sri Lankan army. Then in 1996 the Tigers took...
...hardly new. The civil war killed 64,000 people from 1983 to 2001. Tamil rebels?who run their own shadow government, with courts, traffic cops and a national anthem behind their heavily defended borders?have long demanded that leaders in Colombo recognize their sovereignty. The rebels say that if this is granted, they are willing to discuss the establishment of a federal state. The government in Colombo still insists on a unified state. Even if some sort of compromise is reached in Geneva, President Mahinda Rajapakse, a Sinhalese nationalist elected last year, might be hard pressed to sell...