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	<title>Comments on: Sri Lanka: The Pros And Cons Of International Attention</title>
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		<title>By: Sivakaran</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/24/sri-lanka-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1566306</link>
		<dc:creator>Sivakaran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 19:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sri Lankan government is not allowing independent journalist, international monitoring and even aid agencies. The Sri lankan government is using &quot;war on terror&quot; for its convenience to massacre innocent civilians. 

World must take action immediately to end before its too late.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sri Lankan government is not allowing independent journalist, international monitoring and even aid agencies. The Sri lankan government is using &#8220;war on terror&#8221; for its convenience to massacre innocent civilians. </p>
<p>World must take action immediately to end before its too late.</p>
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		<title>By: Shirani</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/24/sri-lanka-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1565669</link>
		<dc:creator>Shirani</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 18:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Genocide exactly is what is going on in Sri Lanka. 

Apart from the Government sponsored pogroms against Tamils over a period of 61 years, in 1956, 1958, 1977 &amp; 1983, presently Sri Lanka’s mono-ethnic Sinhalese security forces have attempted to physically destroy Tamils in whole or in substantial part through killings/disappearances; infliction of serious bodily injury on tens of thousands; creation of punishing conditions of life, including starvation, withholding medicines and hospital care, humanitarian aid embargoes, bombing and artillery shelling of schools, hospitals, churches, temples; and the displacements of more than 1.3 million civilians into camps, which were then bombed and shelled. Families are separated and children as young as 13 are held separately in abandoned houses stripped naked.  This degree of mayhem on an ethnicity is clearly Genocide without doubt</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Genocide exactly is what is going on in Sri Lanka. </p>
<p>Apart from the Government sponsored pogroms against Tamils over a period of 61 years, in 1956, 1958, 1977 &amp; 1983, presently Sri Lanka’s mono-ethnic Sinhalese security forces have attempted to physically destroy Tamils in whole or in substantial part through killings/disappearances; infliction of serious bodily injury on tens of thousands; creation of punishing conditions of life, including starvation, withholding medicines and hospital care, humanitarian aid embargoes, bombing and artillery shelling of schools, hospitals, churches, temples; and the displacements of more than 1.3 million civilians into camps, which were then bombed and shelled. Families are separated and children as young as 13 are held separately in abandoned houses stripped naked.  This degree of mayhem on an ethnicity is clearly Genocide without doubt</p>
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		<title>By: Small World News &#8212;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Small World News &#8212;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] media, so fickle and easily distracted by the newest international crisis, are not likely to begin sustained reporting from Sri Lanka anytime soon. With the widespread assaults on journalist&#8217;s freedoms in Sri Lanka, the local press could [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] media, so fickle and easily distracted by the newest international crisis, are not likely to begin sustained reporting from Sri Lanka anytime soon. With the widespread assaults on journalist&#8217;s freedoms in Sri Lanka, the local press could [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Global Voices - Sri Lanka: The Pros And Cons Of International Attention &#171; Australian Tamils &#8216;Fast unto Action&#8217; to call for a Ceasefire in Sri Lanka</title>
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		<dc:creator>Global Voices - Sri Lanka: The Pros And Cons Of International Attention &#171; Australian Tamils &#8216;Fast unto Action&#8217; to call for a Ceasefire in Sri Lanka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Click here to be taken to blog post Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)The White House Makes An Official Stand On The Violent Political Uprest In &#8230;Who says there&#8217;s ethnic cleansing in Sri LankaStopping the Sri Lankan Genocide : What Will You Do?Sri Lanka coach: Attacks may prompt retirements [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Miriam Epstein: &quot;Sri Lanka that is officially Buddhist uses brute force to enslave Tamil minorities left with absolutely no civil or human rights.&quot;

Please dont disgrace a surname traditionally associated with thought and intelligence with bigoted comments like that. Especially when you dont know anything about that which you decide on to opine.

Sri Lanka is the only country in the world where Tamil is an official language. All government documents; School texts and public signs also contain Tamil. Even India with 70 million of the worlds 100 million Tamil population has not gone this far. Sri Lanka as free health (on par with standards set by developed countries) and free education with one of the highest literacy rates for a developing country in the entire world. University education is based on competitive public exam entrance, and in 2005, 19 % of the undergraduates in public universities were Tamils. (Tamils make up 16.5% of the Sri Lankan population). In 2003, Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka alone held 272,583 Tamils, versus the entire Eastern (claimed to be Tamil dominion) Province which has 110,796.

The facts speak for themselves, but by all means, do  not let facts stand in the way of your disillusionments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Miriam Epstein: &#8220;Sri Lanka that is officially Buddhist uses brute force to enslave Tamil minorities left with absolutely no civil or human rights.&#8221;</p>
<p>Please dont disgrace a surname traditionally associated with thought and intelligence with bigoted comments like that. Especially when you dont know anything about that which you decide on to opine.</p>
<p>Sri Lanka is the only country in the world where Tamil is an official language. All government documents; School texts and public signs also contain Tamil. Even India with 70 million of the worlds 100 million Tamil population has not gone this far. Sri Lanka as free health (on par with standards set by developed countries) and free education with one of the highest literacy rates for a developing country in the entire world. University education is based on competitive public exam entrance, and in 2005, 19 % of the undergraduates in public universities were Tamils. (Tamils make up 16.5% of the Sri Lankan population). In 2003, Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka alone held 272,583 Tamils, versus the entire Eastern (claimed to be Tamil dominion) Province which has 110,796.</p>
<p>The facts speak for themselves, but by all means, do  not let facts stand in the way of your disillusionments.</p>
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		<title>By: Miriam Epstein</title>
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		<dc:creator>Miriam Epstein</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Friends, Religion is so very important for one’s personal growth and national growth. Sri Lanka that is officially Buddhist uses brute force to enslave Tamil minorities left with absolutely no civil or human rights. That is what the whole world want to see. We want to see ‘terrorism’ eliminated - in Lanka backed by islamists and elsewhere too.

But, it is ok for maoist terrorists backed by islamists in Nepal to dethrone a traditional King. It is also ok for islamists (that the kosovar albanian terrorists are) to declare independence because they “suffered” under serbs. 3rdly, it is ok for IRA terrorists to get power by devolution. Where is justice? What’d Chaucer say? We need to re-write Canterbury Tales to get the full force of religion in public life or become secular like the ordinary citizens of India where they continue to suffer under neo-mogul savagely violent colonialists. God save the weak and vulnerable Tamils and Indian secular public! !

In the mean time, NPR should work to get billions more as infitel tax via donor conference to the islamist con-men of fakistan - all in the name of religion - Abrahamic religions?!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Friends, Religion is so very important for one’s personal growth and national growth. Sri Lanka that is officially Buddhist uses brute force to enslave Tamil minorities left with absolutely no civil or human rights. That is what the whole world want to see. We want to see ‘terrorism’ eliminated &#8211; in Lanka backed by islamists and elsewhere too.</p>
<p>But, it is ok for maoist terrorists backed by islamists in Nepal to dethrone a traditional King. It is also ok for islamists (that the kosovar albanian terrorists are) to declare independence because they “suffered” under serbs. 3rdly, it is ok for IRA terrorists to get power by devolution. Where is justice? What’d Chaucer say? We need to re-write Canterbury Tales to get the full force of religion in public life or become secular like the ordinary citizens of India where they continue to suffer under neo-mogul savagely violent colonialists. God save the weak and vulnerable Tamils and Indian secular public! !</p>
<p>In the mean time, NPR should work to get billions more as infitel tax via donor conference to the islamist con-men of fakistan &#8211; all in the name of religion &#8211; Abrahamic religions?!!!</p>
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		<title>By: max</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/24/sri-lanka-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1564543</link>
		<dc:creator>max</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>when there killing in IRAQ (For NO reason)by US and others , u ignores , when SRI LANKA fight against world ruthless terrorist (define by  FBI it self)  u shouts loud,

This is theNew World order Pep .....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>when there killing in IRAQ (For NO reason)by US and others , u ignores , when SRI LANKA fight against world ruthless terrorist (define by  FBI it self)  u shouts loud,</p>
<p>This is theNew World order Pep &#8230;..</p>
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