Tag Archives: Sri Lanka

Kilinochchi falls

09-01-02 – 04:11:am

Details at Sri Lanka’s Daily News.

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After Black July

08-07-23 – 04:00:pm

On October 23, 1990 an armed militant group fighting for the rights of minority Tamils expelled the entirety of the Muslim population of the north [of Sri Lanka] from the province at gunpoint. They were given only a 48-hour ultimatum to leave the Northern Province or to face death at the hands of the militants. [...]

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Black July

08-07-23 – 08:33:am

Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the initiation of full-scale armed conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE.
National Peace Council of Sri Lanka:
Commemorating July 1983:  Bridges that Continue to Hold
On July 23, 1983 law and order in Sri Lanka virtually collapsed as mobs went on a rampage, inciting anarchy and fear, uprooting Tamil [...]

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I CAN’T HEAR YOU

08-06-25 – 09:21:pm

US, 2008:

The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week.

Sri Lanka, 2003:

Constitutional crisis grips Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts [...]

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