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...enthusiasm could be contagious. In 1994, Toronto Film Festival audiences gave a rapturous reception to the films of top Tamil auteur Mani Rathnam, including Nayakan (1987), a terrific gangster epic in the Godfather style, and Roja (1992), a terrorist Love Story. The song lyrics alone could easily attract camp followers: imagine an American star crooning, "Your sexy appearance triggers procreation in the earth...Life's a cactus without you," or "On your beautiful body, sweat never tastes salty...
...injured difficult. The people on the street are in shock. The area that was hit is considered the best-guarded area in the city. Many prominent buildings were damaged, including some of the city's best hotels. Nobody has claimed responsibility, but it is certain that it was the Tamil rebels. We knew a major attack would happen after the government forces overtook Jaffna, the rebels' seat of power last December. There will be pressure on President Chandrika Kumaratunga to increase military operations in the northern part of the country. But that might not be enough. The rebels have...
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: A truck packed with explosives drove into Sri Lanka's central bank today, killing at least 53 people and wounding 1,400. Sri Lankan authorities are blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the explosion, which caused the bank and several other buildings to burst into flames. The fires blazed for most of the day, making rescue attempts difficult. If it was a rebel attack, it was one of the worst in their 12-year campaign for an independent homeland. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the fighting. The worst attack occurred in October 1994, when...
...suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a government building in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 22 people and wounding 50 others. The police said the blast was set off by a Tamil separatist fighting for a homeland in the northeast of the country...
...multiethnic society. Barings paid Leeson's dues for the Cricket Club, an old establishment institution for British expatriates in Singapore, but he rarely went there. The Leesons' three-bedroom apartment was part of a low-rise building on neatly manicured grounds in one of Singapore's fashionable neighborhoods, where Tamil and Malay workers come in every morning to mow the lawns, wash the cars and sweep the grounds. But the Leesons took their apartment furnished and barely decorated it, adding almost no personal touches...