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...managing editor of The Crimson, is an English concentrator in Lowell House. She covered ethnic student organizations and campus race relations for The Crimson, and directed the team of reporters who broke the story of Summers’ appointment as University president. She is the daughter of Sri Lankan Tamil immigrants, and grew up in Bethesda, Md. To what extent does she think ethnic/racial groups at Harvard self-segregate, on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being not at all and 5 being a great deal? Before writing this scrutiny, she would have said what most people said...
...think Ireland or Kenya. Such outrages cannot be a reason for never talking to those responsible for them, for, inconveniently, those individuals may also be--as Arafat is--the authentic leaders of their people. That is why the Sri Lankan government is about to begin peace talks with the Tamil Tigers, a group whose long use of indiscriminate terror, child soldiers, suicide bombs and assassination makes Palestinian radicals look tame. In 1995 it was the pressing American national interest to end the war in Bosnia that threatened to sunder the Atlantic alliance. To reach that goal, Richard Holbrooke...
...think Ireland or Kenya. Such outrages cannot be a reason for never talking to those responsible for them, for, inconveniently, those individuals may also be--as Arafat is--the authentic leaders of their people. That is why the Sri Lankan government is about to begin peace talks with the Tamil Tigers, a group whose long use of indiscriminate terror, child soldiers, suicide bombs and assassination makes Palestinian radicals look tame. In 1995 it was the pressing American national interest to end the war in Bosnia that threatened to sunder the Atlantic alliance. To reach that goal, Richard Holbrooke...
What will it take to bring peace to tiny, tortured Sri Lanka, now in the 19th year of a conflict that has taken 65,000 lives? More than anything, the cooperation of one man, Velupillai Prabhakaran, supremo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), one of the most enduring and deadly rebel groups in the world. Prabhakaran emerged from the jungles of northern Sri Lanka last week to hold his first press conference in 12 years and talk some very uncharacteristic talk: of peace. If the right deal is offered, he announced, he will call off the rebellion, collect...
...Tigers are already feeling a post-Sept. 11 pinch. The group is now banned in all their main overseas bases: the U.S., Britain, Australia and Canada. Bank accounts have been frozen. But the pressure may be overstated. According to Gunaratna, the LTTE continue to raise funds from the Tamil diaspora around the world, although any explicit coercion has been replaced by implicit threats. The majority of the 500,000-strong Sri Lankan Tamil community abroad backs peace. But some?among them generous donors?oppose it, fearing a settlement would threaten their ability to win permission to settle abroad as embattled...