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Showing posts with label Tamils. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Tamils. Show all posts

Dec 20, 2009

Tamils in Canada vote for independent homeland in Sri Lanka

Image by Getty Images via Daylife In the latest such vote to be held by Tamils of Sri Lankan descent living abroad, members of the diaspor...

Nov 11, 2009

In Sri Lanka, anger over fate of ethnic Tamils held in camps - washingtonpost.com

Image via Wikipedia Many languishing in camps months after war's end By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, November ...

Aug 16, 2009

Downpours Flood the Camps of Sri Lankan Refugees

By LYDIA POLGREEN NEW DELHI — Downpours in northern Sri Lanka have flooded camps housing more than 250,000 people displaced by...

Jun 30, 2009

Twittergasms

by Alexander Cockburn How much easier it is to raise three--or 3 million--rousing tweets for the demonstrators in Tehran than to ...

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