Earlier this year the world’s media were largely banned from reporting in the North and East of Sri Lanka, with poignant echoes of Israel’s stance in Gaza. Some of us – mea culpa – believed the government when they claimed that it was largely for the safety of journalists and to avoid fanning the flickering [...]
Category Archives: Sri Lanka
The sad, bad, mad story of Prabakaran, Tiger turned maneater
May 18, 2009 – 7:24 pm
This second opinion on Sri Lanka deals in detail with the life and times of Prabakaran, leader of the Tamil Tigers. If you want to know why Miliband’s effigy was burned in Colombo, read on. I for one was not aware that Karuna, former second-in-command of the LTTE, was recently detained in Wormwood Scrubs then [...]
Let's hope we've seen the last of the Tamil Tigers, and of liberal interventionist hypocrisy
May 18, 2009 – 1:43 pm
Today, Sri Lankan authorities declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), claiming that Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed while attempting to escape the war zone in an ambulance which crashed. His sons were killed earlier. Prabhakaran had urged the last remaining Tigers to swallow cyanide pills. It appears he neglected to [...]