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Teaching Tamil Tigers

Asoka Girihagama
MJA 2008; 188 (9): 544

To the Editor: In his article “Teaching Tamil Tigers”,1 Whitehall gives the grossly false impression that the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority are fighting with each other in Sri Lanka. It is not a conflict between Tamil and Sinhalese communities, but a terrorist issue. The terrorist organisation that calls itself the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is fighting the elected government of Sri Lanka in an attempt to carve out a separate monoethnic state in areas in the north and east of Sri Lanka. The LTTE’s terrorist approach is denounced by most of the democracies of the world.

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