When a handful of individuals convened near the Borella Cemetery in Colombo on July 23, to mark the 40th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s anti-Tamil pogrom in 1983, a few angry young men disrupted the proceedings despite heavy police presence. “I couldn’t follow everything at the time, but I understood that the Tamils were in danger.” And very soon, the danger …
In the 1990s, it was common for leading Sri Lankan political leaders to meet with senior journalists of The Hindu Group of Publications while in or transiting Chennai. On one occasion, after a seasoned and genteel Sri Lankan politician spoke at length about the situation in Sri Lanka and how complicated the question of granting Federal powers to the Tamils …
