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Articles on the Easter Sunday Attacks in Sri Lanka, 2019: THOSE in April 2019

VARIED…. IMMEDIATE – APRIL 2019 Nirupama Subramaniam 2019 “Nirupama’s Incisive Appraisal identifies Islamic Jihadist Patterns in Easter Sunday Terror,” 22 April 2019, ….. https://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/nirupamas-incisive-appraisal-identifies-islamic-jihadist-patterns-in-palm-sunday-terror/

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Jehan Perera on Channel Four’s Slant on the Easter Sunday Attacks of 2019

Jehan Perera in The Island, 19 September 2019 The Channel 4 documentary that claims to give the story behind the Easter bombing has restarted the debate, within the country, about who was behind the foul deed, and why. The answer … Continue reading

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The LTTE Bomb Attack on the Central Bank Building in the Heart of Colombo, 31 January 1996

Michael Roberts Colombo in the 1990s was a rather different world from the city today because its heartland centred around the Fort with its venerable shops (Cargills, Millers) leading mercantile offices, three premier hotels and the huge Central Bank building … Continue reading

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Surviving A Leopard Attack in Hill-Country Sri Lanka

Kamanthi Wickemasinghe in Daily Mirror, 12 June 2023, where the title reads “Hill Country Leopard Ordeals and A Survivor’s Tale” … with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Dusk had already set in when we reached Bogawantalawa last Friday (June … Continue reading

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Escalation of Attacks on Hindu Shrines in Northern Lanka

Meera Srinivasan, in The Hindu, 23 April 2023, whee the title reads thus: “Tamils flag escalating attacks on temples in northern Sri Lanka” … with highlighting added by The Editor, Thuppahi Several Tamil parties have called for a protest on … Continue reading

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Confronting Vicious Vituperation……

A RESPONSE From Thiru Kandiah in Perth – to – A Vituperative Verbal Assault on Michael Roberts From A Person who Signed Himself as “N W Goonewardena” ** My horror of involving myself in exchanges in public fora (to participate in … Continue reading

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Awesome & Frightening Ramifications of the Israel-Iran War

In Your Face** … with highlights added by Editor, Thuppahi SEE Tim Anderson’s Views on al-Jazeera as one step towards understaning the present hot war between Iran and Israel …. https://youtu.be/r6euXK-_qec?si=CxUeWE2e-dwJFX01 … Re Tim Anderson’s views on Al Jazeera — … Continue reading

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Articles on the Easter Sunday Attacks in 2019 presented within TPS in May 2019

Michael Roberts I have recently presented the list of items placed in this site during April 2019 immediately after the shocking events and now commence  to  present the itmes that appeared in May 2019. I can hardly claim to have … Continue reading

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Understanding the Kamikaze Attacks in World War Two

Kostas Sapardanis, at http://sapardanis.org/2016/05/20/kamikaze-who-they-were-why-they-died/       on 20 May 2016, where the title runs thus “Kamikaze – Who they were, why they died” … item sent to me by retd Brig Hiran Halangode  “Every time one country gets something, another soon … Continue reading

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Lesser Known ‘Armwrestles’: The Baluchistan Liberation Army Within Pakistan

An Item in FRONTLINE …. Produced in India & One of the World’s Leading Journals In yet another blow to Pakistan’s internal security, militants seized control of a train in the Bolan area of Balochistan on March 11. The Jaffar … Continue reading

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