Word: jaffna
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...argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based on the idea that the two groups could not live under a single administration because neither cared to learn the other's language. But today many people in the Tamil-dominated northern capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo...
...argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based on the idea that the two groups could not live under a single administration because neither cared to learn the other's language. But today many people in the Tamil-dominated northern capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo, Sri Lanka...
...civilians since Rajapakse's election, killed by the army or plainclothes death squads. The killings include the execution-style shooting of five Tamil students, the assassination of a Tamil parliamentarian in church on Christmas Eve, and the murder of a Tamil actress, her sister and mother at home in Jaffna...
...country, isolated for years by a government-imposed embargo. Before the peace process began, Wickremesinghe says, "we were a market of 15 million. Now we are a market of 19 million." In Dambulla, a trading town in the center of Sri Lanka, vegetable sellers now do brisk business with Jaffna, the chief city in the Tamil north: these days, large onions and pineapples are sent up north, while trucks carry small red onions, bananas and beetroots south. Cheap agricultural produce from the north is one reason why inflation has dropped to barely 7% from more than...
...surge in spending by international aid agencies is also stimulating the economy, even reaching up to the ravaged Tamil north, where a highway to Jaffna is being rebuilt by the Asian Development Bank. Although thousands of Tamils who had to leave their homes during the civil war still languish in refugee camps, conditions in the north are slowly improving. In Killinochchi, an LTTE-controlled town that saw some of the fiercest fighting, a landscape of burned-out, bullet-scarred buildings is intermittently relieved by a brand-new office or restaurant. The LTTE has even opened its own caf? in town...