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Priya Rajdev ’07 is a government concentrator in Eliot House. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Sri Lankan Daily News, Austria’s Die Presse, and The Winnipeg Sun. She would also like to point out that while none of the above is actually true, wouldn’t it be cool if it were? Priya would like to give a brief shout-out to GWB: “G-Dubs—you’re the best friend a cartoonist could ever have—keep up the good work...
...squats alone on the floor of her one-room hut, untwisting and retying a torn fishing net, it becomes clear that Rosa Nobert, 43, shares her days with the dead. The walls are 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...
...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 it back, wiping out a garrison of 1,200 government troops and losing 800 of their own in a single day. After the two sides stopped fighting, Mullaitivu enjoyed three years of peace. Then came the tsunami of Dec. 26, 2004, which killed...
...Today, those left in Mullaitivu fear that war is returning. In the past two months, rebels and their proxies have carried out assassinations and deadly mine attacks on military convoys. On Jan. 7, a speedboat laden with explosives was driven into a Sri Lankan navy pursuit craft anchored a few hours south of Mullaitivu, killing 13 sailors. The Sri Lankan army and its paramilitary allies behave little better, raping, abducting and executing civilians thought to support Tamil nationalism. Both sides accuse the other, explaining any killings carried out by their side of the divide as forgivable retaliation. The violence over...
...Tigers deny responsibility for recent attacks on the army, blaming them on spontaneous Tamil uprisings. Tiger political chief S.P. Tamilchelvan says the Sri Lankan army and its paramilitary squads have provoked such unrest. The Northeast Secretariat on Human Rights, which receives some funding from the Tigers but is reputed for its independence, has recorded the death of more than 70 Tamil civilians since Rajapakse's election, killed by the army or plainclothes death squads. The killings include the execution-style shooting of five Tamil students, the assassination of a Tamil parliamentarian in church on Christmas Eve, and the murder...