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...capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo...
Columbia Dean of Student Affairs Chris Colombo declined to comment...
...capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo, Sri Lanka Unpersuasive Picture "Abramoff's Kodak moment" [Feb. 20] described a gathering of about two dozen people that included President Bush, Raul Garza - who was a client of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff - and Abramoff himself. The photo of the meeting that Time published shows Bush and Garza shaking hands...
...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...
...round will continue to have their aspirations for peace thwarted. Haunting the island is the possibility that neither side in the conflict is able to rise above its worst instincts, and that two decades of ferocious conflict may have brutalized the island beyond repair. Says a European diplomat in Colombo: "Killing is how Sri Lanka does politics." Father Gnanapragasam Peter, who runs a mission for the Catholic aid charity Caritas, concurs. "Neither side," he says flatly, "cares for the people...