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Neelan Tiruchelvam was killed last week. He was a prominent Tamil member of the Sri Lankan Parliament, and was scheduled to arrive at Harvard as a visiting professor this fall. He never made...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: What War is Worth | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...doubt that many people had heard of Neelan or the LTTE before the suicide-bombing. I'm the American-born daughter of two Sri Lankan Tamils. I seek out Sri Lankan news. And although my parents have told me about the LTTE my whole life, I had never, until his death, heard of Neelan Tiruchelvam. How is this possible...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: What War is Worth | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Neelan, a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament and Vice President of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), was known as a moderate peacemaker in the country's bloody 16-year-old ethnic war between the dominant Buddhist Sinhalese and the Hindu Tamil minority...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Professor Dies in Terrorist Bomb Attack | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga condemned the attack in a written statement...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Professor Dies in Terrorist Bomb Attack | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

Steiner called Neelan a "major figure" in the world of human rights and said his death could destabilize Sri Lankan peace negotiations...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Professor Dies in Terrorist Bomb Attack | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

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