Do not let global supporters of genocide look like saviours of Tamils

By Jude Lal Fernando 
  
In the second part of his discourse on Sri Lanka, Sinhala academic Jude Lal Fernando traces the political history of the island nation and dispels the theory that British favoured the Tamils. The first part of this article appeeared last week. 

Mute spectators: Jude refuses to buy the theory that the ‘major powers’ including the US and the UK were unaware of the massacre of Tamils by the Sri Lankan army (Photos:www.warwithoutwitness.com)

Every nation in the world wants to appease Sri Lanka because of its strategic location in the Indian Ocean. The Tamil struggle fell a victim to this appeasement

Lest we forget: The deaths of thousands of civilians in the brutal war could have been averted had the major powers intervened at the appropriate time

 Read Part I  Read Part II

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