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Like thousands of poor Tamil villagers, Kumaresan Velu, 29, had been lured to Bangalore, India's booming computer capital, where construction jobs pay $3 a day. To tide him over until he could find work, he agreed to sell his blood. Velu was taken to Yellamma Dasappa, a private hospital, and sedated after admission. When he was discharged eight days later, he had a 25-cm scar on his side. He later learned that his left kidney was missing. Within days, nine other victims told police a similar tale...
...candidate for President, at a political rally in the outskirts of the capital, Colombo. Gamini Dissanayake, head of the United National Party, was killed along with several other party leaders; more than 200 people were injured. Police said the attack was similar to suicide bombings carried out by ethnic Tamil separatists...
...different. I believe Americans are big enough to accept that there are little countries which protect themselves in a different way. We don't deal with criminal behavior the way Americans do. We don't have the concept of "victim of society" either in the Chinese, Malay or Tamil language. This concept has led to a situation where if you kill your mother and father, because you were victims, you are not guilty. If you cut off your husband's penis, it's O.K. But it is not O.K. If we allow it to be O.K., we'll have chaos...
...billboard of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa displayed during May Day festivities at which the 68- year-old Premadasa was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin who detonated explosives strapped to his body. The bomber who killed the President and 23 others was identified last week as a Tamil militant who had ingratiated himself with the President's staff...
Endangered by the government's campaign to suppress a Tamil uprising...