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...ASIA Sri Lanka: Peace Dividend Japan: Get This Party Started...
...ASIA Sri Lanka: Peace Dividend Japan: Get This Party Started...
When Thavarasan Singham returned to his grocery shop in May, the shutters were still riddled with bullet holes. Back in 1990, Singham's town of Mankulam, in northern Sri Lanka, was caught in the cross fire between Tamil guerrillas and Sri Lanka's predominantly Sinhalese army. After the Tamil fighters retreated, the army drove into Mankulam. Singham knew what was coming next. Pulling down the shutters of his shop, he ran out the back door with his wife and four children, just before bullets and mortar shells burst into every store in the Tamil-dominated village. For the next...
...Uigur? Margaret Gulotta, chief of the FBI?s language services program, says this Turkish-based language, spoken by about eight million people in China?s Sinkiang Uigur autonomous region, has come up occasionally in terrorism cases.. Ditto Amharic and Tigrinya, spoken in Ethiopia, Tamil, the language of the Sri Lankan terrorist group Tamil Tigers, and the dialects of Southeast Asia, where Muslim extremism is rising. ?About 90 percent of the world?s population speak [one of] 60 or 70 languages,? says Gulotta, ?but there are about 6000 languages and dialects spoken in the world and if one of those...
...Kofi Annan [Sept. 15], here's one more: Why didn't Annan resign when the U.S. and Britain bypassed the Security Council and invaded Iraq? By putting his own future ahead of the U.N.'s, Annan destroyed whatever credibility the U.N. had, especially among its staff. Ravindra Wickremasinghe Pelawatte, Sri Lanka...