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...interesting to hear about baseball from them because they’re historians from other fields.” The group spoke relatively little about the numerous revelations of illegal steroid usage that have wracked baseball in the last decade. But Gammons addressed the government??s role in tackling these issues in an interview before the forum. “I don’t think government can regulate sports, but I think they can go after the heart of the underworld issues,” he said, citing the prevalence of steroid use in high school...
...many different ways, he added. “You carry your ethnicity on your ID card,” he said. “You carry your religion in your heart.” Lipman also touched on the politics of Islam in China. He mentioned that the government??s statistical categorization of Muslims could reductively split the Muslim population into forced groups, an effect harmful to the ummah—or sacred sense of unity—of the Islamic community there. He also said that the translation of Islamic concepts into Chinese, a language with...
...proscription of the LTTE as a terrorist organization by the U.S.—followed by the U.K., the EU, and others after September 11—has created a diplomatic imbalance on the island, legitimizing the Sri Lankan government??s indiscriminate military attacks on areas populated by civilians without impunity. Since the government??s official withdrawal from a ceasefire agreement with the LTTE in 2008, its military campaign has internally displaced over 200,000 Tamils in the northeast of the island, killing and injuring thousands...
...remains a war without witnesses, and independent reports are rare. Foreign journalists, monitors, and aid workers are banned from the epicenter of the fighting, making it increasingly difficult to produce meaningful criticism of the government??s actions...
...independent voices to cease the violence and to support self-determination of Tamils, is similarly ignored and consistently fails to be put on the agenda of the UN Security Council. The protesting diaspora is of the same generation and people who have been subject to the Sri Lankan government??s discriminatory policies and violence since Sri Lanka’s independence from the British...