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| The government is on the cusp of completing a famous victory against Sri Lanka’s Tamil rebels. Now it needs to avert a massacre, and make peace AFTER a terrible battle on April 3rd-5th, Sri Lanka’s surviving Tamil Tigers withdrew to a government-designated “no-fire zone”—a narrow beach, packed with refugees, on the country’s north-eastern coast. The army claimed to have killed 525 of the rebels, including two fierce women commanders, Vidusha and Durga. Killing (or capturing) their leaders, above all Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers’ supremo for three decades, is now the last big goal of a brutal, but brilliantly successful, two-year campaign. It may not be easy. | | More... | |
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| "Refugee" Mantle or Shroud | | I’m sure your thinking “Well, that’s an odd headline”, It been another year of war in Sri Lanka between the Sri Lankan | | More... | | War and Websites | | Welcome to OfERR’s newly revamped website. OfERR has been around 25 Years. And the Old OfERR website developed by our refugee Staff has been around for quite a while. | | More... | | War and Peace | | A lot has changed since my last article “War and Websites”. Prabakaran has been declared dead. Celebration in the Sinhalese areas, tears in the Tamil areas. | | More... | | Is BLOOD RED the only colour that warrants Attenti | | Last year was the most turbulent and bloody one in the history of the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. | | More... | | Is blood red the only colour that warrants Attenti | | Last year was the most turbulent and bloody one in the history of the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. | | More... | | | |
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