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...sake, Stith was donning a real motorcycle jacket, whose tough black leather had been worn rugged by a thousand rides, whereas the clubby leather jacket I was sporting had barely a crease to show for its one-time trek halfway across the world from some Sri Lankan factory to my dorm room closet...
...former managing editor of The Crimson, is an English concentrator in Lowell House. She covered ethnic student organizations and campus race relations for The Crimson, and directed the team of reporters who broke the story of Summers’ appointment as University president. She is the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants, and grew up in Bethesda, Md. To what extent does she think ethnic/racial groups at Harvard self-segregate, on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being not at all and 5 being a great deal? Before writing this scrutiny, she would have said what most people...
...existence in the 1940s, have seen violence against civilians: think Ireland or Kenya. Such outrages cannot be a reason for never talking to those responsible for them, for, inconveniently, those individuals may also be--as Arafat is--the authentic leaders of their people. That is why the Sri Lankan government is about to begin peace talks with the Tamil Tigers, a group whose long use of indiscriminate terror, child soldiers, suicide bombs and assassination makes Palestinian radicals look tame. In 1995 it was the pressing American national interest to end the war in Bosnia that threatened to sunder the Atlantic...
...their clandestine activities." From Cambodia in particular, says Gunaratna, the Tigers have bought and shipped "a large quantity" of artillery shells and weapons in the past three months. "It clearly demonstrates that in terms of their long-term mission of building capability, there has been no change." Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe concurs: "From the intelligence we have, their network is functioning," he says. "That doesn't surprise me at all." Prabhakaran insisted last week that the LTTE were no longer recruiting child soldiers, but Time has seen internal LTTE documents, which record the names of at least...
...Britain, Australia and Canada. Bank accounts have been frozen. But the pressure may be overstated. According to Gunaratna, the LTTE continue to raise funds from the Tamil diaspora around the world, although any explicit coercion has been replaced by implicit threats. The majority of the 500,000-strong Sri Lankan Tamil community abroad backs peace. But some?among them generous donors?oppose it, fearing a settlement would threaten their ability to win permission to settle abroad as embattled refugees from a war-torn land. "There are many who arrived in recent years and their applications for citizenship are still pending...