Posts Tagged ‘bbc’
Tamil Tigers vow to keep fighting
[BBC] Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels have said they will continue to fight even if they lose their political headquarters town of Kilinochchi. There has been fierce fighting as the army tries to capture Kilinochchi. The head of the rebels’ political wing told the BBC he rejected the government’s offer of talks if the Tigers…
Read MoreConditions in Sri Lanka’s north ‘like Somalia’
[Telegraph] SO little independent, verifiable information is coming out of northern Sri Lanka at the moment that I thought I should share this BBC report based on an interview with a World Food Programme employee, John Campbell, broadcast on the network’s Sinhala service. Speaking from a waterlogged village in a rebel-controlled area, he made this…
Read MoreS Lanka’s ‘Somalia conditions’
[BBC] A UN official in a rebel-held area of northern Sri Lanka has said that conditions for displaced people there are “as basic as in Somalia”. John Campbell, from the World Food Programme (WFP), told the BBC Sinhala service that conditions were “as basic as can be” and “much less than ideal”. Mr Campbell was…
Read MoreS Lanka ‘joker’ jibe angers India
[ BBC ] The Indian government has protested to Sri Lanka over a statement by the Sri Lankan army commander who described some Indian politicians as “jokers”. In an interview with a state-run newspaper, Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka said that the Indian government would not listen to Tamil Nadu “jokers”. The Indian state of Tamil…
Read MoreUK Tamils polarised but powerful
[ BBC ] For one bitter-sweet moment when he wakes up each morning, Anand believes he is still in Sri Lanka. When a ferocious war between the Sinhalese-dominated government and Tamil Tiger rebels fighting for a separate homeland arrived at his doorstep in 1993, he fled to Britain. “In my dreams, I go to Sri…
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