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...Lanka's 26 years of civil war effectively ended on May 19 with a single image. Televisions across the globe broadcast a government-issued photo of slain Tamil Tiger head Velupillai Prabhakaran, lying on a muddy patch of ground with wide eyes and a fractured skull. His life's end terminated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's decades-long fight for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority - about 10% of the population - and a cycle of violence that Sri Lankans of all ethnicities and religions have been living with for decades...
...fear of a network globally regarded as terrorists. What more Tamils living abroad can agree on is better rights for the minority still in the country. Many Tamils, who are primarily Hindu, have long claimed job discrimination and unequal political power in a nation and government dominated by Sri Lanka's Sinhalese Buddhist majority. For decades, hundreds of thousands of Tamils have endured life in the cross fire between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government, and still today, about 300,000 of the nation's 3 million Tamils remain in government camps in Sri Lanka's north. Many expatriate...
...years, young Tamils have been staging protests calling for international intervention in Sri Lanka's civil war to help establish a permanent cease-fire. Now they're shifting their energies to persuade Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa to provide desperately needed resources to war-torn areas across the nation. Many young Tamils have grown loudly critical of Rajapaksa, who they say does not respect the rights of minority groups in the country. On June 17 in London, a 73-day protest calling for an end to discrimination against the Tamils by the Sri Lankan government ended with a series...
...Many Tamil youth living around the world became committed to raising awareness of Sri Lanka's plight in the West after they visited their parents' country between 2002 and 2008, a period of truce between troops and the Tigers, and saw how their families were living there. Vasuki Guna, a 20-year-old university student in Australia, says she can't forget images of children running through a landmine-cleared field or an infant cousin screaming at the sound of a firecracker, confusing it with a grenade. "You come back and can't get the images out of your mind...
...page that belittled India's achievement in holding the world's largest ever election, with minimal disruption and violence, and no controversies (à la hanging or pregnant chads). This election is a beacon of hope in a region that only seems to produce bad news from Nepal to Sri Lanka, Afghanistan to Burma. No wonder India is so disillusioned with the attitudes of the West. Like most people, Indians have long memories. One day, the West will come to rue this indifference toward a country that is one of very few true democracies outside Europe and North America. Alex Joseph...