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...modern world isn't divided between capitalism and communism; it's divided in part between nations done dealing with their secessionists and those still fighting. Sri Lanka sided with Serbia, mindful of its Tamil rebels. Even Spain opposed Kosovo's claim as a precedent that could threaten Madrid's sovereignty by encouraging separatists. What's the joke about putting all your Basques in one exit...
...simultaneously - this way you are essentially creating a new market that would earlier either not have watched your film, or would've watched a pirated CD," says Barjatya. His company offers 375 films, 1,500 music videos and 60 TV serials on its website, in Hindi as well as Tamil and other Indian languages. Fans can choose to watch videos for free with advertisements interspersed, or pay to download ad-free films; prices range from 99 cents for a music video to $9.99 for the latest Bollywood release. Rajshri.com uses Microsoft's Windows Media Digital Rights Management service to protect...
...Often, such hostilities involve rival ethnic groups, each wanting its own identity and space and, often, these disputes are the most emotional and intractable. So it is with Sri Lanka. Colombo's decision to officially pull out of a 2002 cease-fire agreement with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) was just a confirmation of what Sri Lankans have known for months - war has returned to the strife-torn Indian Ocean island nation...
...Lankan Air Force says it killed senior Tamil Tiger leader S. P. Tamilselvan and five others in an aerial attack Friday morning. A statement put out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who have spent more than two decades fighting the government of Sri Lanka in an attempt to create a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the Indian Ocean island, confirmed Tamilselvan's death...
...Suresh Premachandran, an MP from the Tamil National Alliance, which is considered a proxy of the LTTE, told TIME the death of Tamilselvan will be a blow for the negotiation process. "It shows the Government is for a military solution. Tamilselvan was the leader of the political wing and involved in all rounds of negotiations, so when the Government targets him it is clear they do not want a political solution," Premachandran said...