The Deadly Fancy Dress Party

The very ordinary getting cloaked in Radicalism “First, we destroyed the small statue. It was a woman. Then we blew up her husband.”  Taliban Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar during a press conference March 2001. The radicals blasted a treasure of their ancient heritage; the moderates defended the radicals. The Taliban were assisted by Saudi/Pakistani engineers in the destruction of the ancient Bamiyan Buddha statues while Al Jazeera was the only outfit permitted to film the destruction.  From the Preface of Amartya Sen’s Identity & Violence, 2007 Oscar Wilde made the enigmatic claim, “most people are other people.”...

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India Trains Terrorists

Concrete Evidence of India Training Terrorists  Indian Intervention in Sri Lanka: written by Rohan Gunaratna The first concrete piece of evidence that India was subverting Sri Lanka came from a small group youth arrested by the Sri Lanka security forces in Jaffna. However the details of interrogation were not divulged for reason unknown, perhaps political or even diplomatic ones. When the sequence of events was later reconstructed, this is how it had happened: a specially hand-picked group of youth, who had come to Tamil Nadu as refugees from Trincomalee was taken to New Delhi. There, they were trained in the use of 9mm pistols,...

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India bombs Sri Lanka with Dhal

India bombs Parippu Dhal to Sri Lanka with a view to Invade- year 1987 Following is a gleaning from the book titled ‘Tigers of Lanka: From Boys to Guerrillas” by the Indian journalist M. R. Narayan Swamy ISBN 81-220-0386-9 On June 3, that intervention took the form of a flotilla of 19 fishing boats loaded with 38 tonnes of pulses, bread, vegetables, milk, rice, salt, kerosene and match boxes which set sail for Jaffna from Rameshwaram, in Tamil nadu, flying Red Cross flags. On board were nearly 100 journalists. But the Sri Lankan navy barred the way, and the flotilla returned to Tamil Nadu after six-hour sea odyssey. The next day, giving Colombo...

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