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...livestock would be less dramatic but might cause more disruption in the long run. Such attempts are not unheard of. In World War II, Britain accused Germany of dropping small cardboard bombs filled with beetle pests on English potato fields, and in the 1980s Tamil militants threatened to target Sri Lankan tea and rubber plantations with plant pathogens...
...programs; Thomas Cushman, a sociology professor at Wellesley College and founder and editor of The Journal of Human Rights; Eitan Felner, the outgoing director of B’Tselem, the Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories; and Mario Gomez, a member of the law commission of Sri Lanka and a professor of public law, human rights and feminist legal studies at the University of Colombo...
...SRI LANKA A New Offer The government made a surprise announcement that it would consider signing a cease-fire agreement with Tamil Tiger separatists ahead of a new round of peace talks. But the rebels dismissed the olive branch as a ploy to divert attention from a political crisis faced by President Chandrika Kumaratunga's ruling party. Kumaratunga suspended Parliament in July to avoid a no-confidence vote after losing her parliamentary majority...
...June 7, the museum received a letter from the "International Committee for Art and Peace." It said the oil painting, valued at $1 million, would not be returned until Israel and the Palestinians make peace. Museum officials are taking the demand seriously. If only Israel and the Palestinians would. SRI LANKA Tamils Up the Odds Tamil Tiger separatists launched a wave of attacks on government property and security forces in a marked upsurge of hostilities. Rebels overran a police station in the island's southeast, leaving 17 police dead in several hours of fighting, while an attack on the front...
...face of an obscure stone tablet is one of the few places in Sri Lanka where Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam can be found side by side. On it, inscriptions in Chinese, Tamil and Persian praise Buddha, Shiva and Allah in equal measure. According to the tributes, alms to each deity - 1,000 pieces of gold, 5,000 of silver, rolls of embroidered silk and taffeta, gold vases and scented oil - were offered in scrupulously identical lots. The offerings and the stela, erected by Zheng He on his third trip to the island, were failed bids at diplomacy. When his efforts...