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…the places in which Mr Rajapaksa lost, and his challenger General Sarath Fonseka won, are – barring a few districts in Colombo and the hills – entirely in the north and east – the areas where Tamils and Tamil-speaking Muslims are in the majority.

The Sinhalese nationalist general was an unlikely champion for minorities but had convinced them that he was more interested in finding them a political solution.

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Gen Fonseka has rejected the election results and told the BBC that he wants to leave the country because of death threats.

“The government has informed the airport not to allow me to leave the country,” he told the BBC Sinhala service. “I fear that an assassination attempt may be made against me.”

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Let’s take this moment to remember Mahinda’s good friend, newspaper editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was assassinated last year, and who blamed the assassination on Mahinda in a posthumous letter.

In the wake of my death I know you will make all the usual sanctimonious noises and call upon the police to hold a swift and thorough inquiry. But like all the inquiries you have ordered in the past, nothing will come of this one, too. For truth be told, we both know who will be behind my death, but dare not call his name. Not just my life, but yours too, depends on it.

Sadly, for all the dreams you had for our country in your younger days, in just three years you have reduced it to rubble. In the name of patriotism you have trampled on human rights, nurtured unbridled corruption and squandered public money like no other President before you. Indeed, your conduct has been like a small child suddenly let loose in a toyshop. That analogy is perhaps inapt because no child could have caused so much blood to be spilled on this land as you have, or trampled on the rights of its citizens as you do. Although you are now so drunk with power that you cannot see it, you will come to regret your sons having so rich an inheritance of blood. It can only bring tragedy. As for me, it is with a clear conscience that I go to meet my Maker. I wish, when your time finally comes, you could do the same. I wish.

Wickrematunge’s prediction from the grave has come true as no one has been arrested or charged with his murder. A journalist with the Canberra Times reported that the person referenced at “dare not call his name” is Mahinda’s brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the minister of defense.

See Gotabaya squirm – eyes bugging, hands flailing, voice pitch rising, changing the subject, casting suspicion on all the former presidents – when asked about Wickrematunge’s death in a BBC interview last February. He derides Wickrematunge as a “tabloid writer” and said it was “just another murder.”

He ends the interview by calling all dissent and criticism of the government ‘treason.’ Nice guy.

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Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 23 : Thailand is eager to learn how Sri Lanka crushed the Tamil Tigers in order to see if the same methods can be used to battle Muslim insurgency in its south, a newspaper reported Friday.

The Bangkok Post said Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva discussed with his Sri Lanka counterpart Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka Thursday Colombo’s “success in putting down the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) movement”.

The daily said the Thai government was “considering adopting techniques used by Sri Lanka in dealing with the Tamil Tiger rebels in its efforts to contain the (Muslim) insurgency in the south”.

“Tough crackdowns were also key to Sri Lanka’s success in its fight against the rebels, which should serve as a good lesson for Thailand,” a government spokesman was quoted as saying.

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Actors hired by an advertising agency will roam the streets of Sri Lanka spreading rumors that travel to Australia is dangerous, that australians don’t want them, and that “efforts to escape from Sri Lanka will end in disappointment.”

The taxpayer-funded campaign will be shown in Sri Lanka, where street theatre and local actors will help spread the message that coming to Australia illegally is dangerous, according to news.com.au.

Civil war in northern Sri Lanka has created a massive refugee problem, with more than 250,000 displaced persons in that region alone.
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Catholic Churches are also being targeted, with literature and pamphlets being distributed around parishes warning asylum seekers they will not be welcome in Australia.

The push has been dubbed the “Stay the Bloody Hell Away” campaign by media, in reference to Tourism Australia’s much-maligned “Where the Bloody Hell Are You” campaign.

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The root grievances of the Tamil population still remain, and are even being exacerbated. How fragile is this peace?

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Kuwait is considering deporting about half a million foreign workers – 15 percent of the country’s population – that are unemployed, lacking skills and in the country illegally….

“There is still a need to have workers, so they are not going to deport everyone, but they will send lower-class workers home: the taxi drivers, people collecting the trash, people like this,” Abu Bakker explained. “It’s better for the country and for the workers because they are not getting their rights.”

Probably not better for the countries of origin, however. “The vast majority of these immigrants are of East and South Asian descent: Bangladeshi, Filipino, Indian, Pakistani or Sri Lankan nationals.”

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