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...fiery orange sun sets over the Everglades, Italian developer Ugo Colombo looks out from his 31st-floor office toward a distinctive circular white condominium tower, near completion, on Biscayne Bay. Developing real estate has made him a millionaire at 32. Half his buyers now, he says, are Latin Americans and Europeans willing to pay from $200,000 to $1.6 million for a condo in the hottest place to be at the moment: Miami...
...Mecca for pederasts is Sri Lanka. "There are no ads in catalogs for sex tours, and yet people are coming for sex," says Maureen Seneviratne, an anti- child prostitution activist in Colombo. Guides to the local boy-sex scene are easy to find, she says, and the illegal trysts frequently occur behind the walls of well-guarded compounds where police never venture...
...attempts to suppress the trade have shifted to the First World nations that supply the clients. "We live in a world of contradictions, lies and cowardice," says Francois Lefort, a French priest and doctor who has fought child prostitution throughout the world. "This problem is not just Bangkok's, Colombo's, Manila's. It's Paris', Brussels', Rome's. It's the nice, respectable white man who goes down there to molest these kids...
...Colombo city employees dismantle a cutout billboard of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa displayed during May Day festivities at which the 68- year-old Premadasa was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin who detonated explosives strapped to his body. The bomber who killed the President and 23 others was identified last week as a Tamil militant who had ingratiated himself with the President's staff...
...increasingly likened himself to Sri Lanka's miracle-working Buddhist kings of old. Until recently, he also avoided overseas travel, reputedly after astrologers warned of his death should he leave the island. The precaution was in vain. Last Saturday, while officiating at a festive May Day parade in Colombo, the 68-year-old President of low-caste birth was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin laden with explosives. At least 15 bystanders were also killed in this latest outbreak of political violence that has convulsed India's once placid offshore neighbor with insurgency and separatist warfare over the past...