SRI LANKA: Plight of persecuted Tamils worsens*

The silence of Western media and government has emboldened the majority Sinhalese to embark on a renewed campaign to dispossess and kill the Tamil people. Dr John Whitehall reports.The Tamil-controlled north-east of Sri Lanka thunders “day and night” under bombardment from the forces of the Sinhalese government in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo as they attempt to destroy Tamil autonomy.Against this backdrop, “a great human tragedy” is also “exploding”, according to Fr James Pathinathan of St T…

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