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December 25, 2012 · 10:41 pm

Tamil Protest being mounted near MCG with TRC support

Adam Shand, in The Australian, 26 December 2012, with a different title “Tamils take their cause to the Boxing Day Test” THE Sri Lankan cricket team faces up to 1000 protesters at Melbourne’s Boxing Day Test today amid claims by … Continue reading →

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June 5, 2011 · 5:38 am

Rohan Gunaratna in Q and A with Raisa Wickrematunge

Raisa Wickrematunge in The Sunday Leader, 5 June 2011 Professor Rohan Gunaratna is dubbed an international terrorism expert. Having written several books on Al-Qaeda and the LTTE, he is also the head of the International Centre for Political Violence and … Continue reading →

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September 22, 2013 · 5:13 pm

Sri Lanka’s Complex Background: Correcting & Amplifying Sheridan and Gotābhaya

Michael Roberts, … with highlighting emphasis in red now added Invited to Sri Lanka by the government Greg Sheridan, a senior journalist of conservative leanings in The Australian stable, brought together some of the themes pressed by the Defence Secretary … Continue reading →

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December 8, 2013 · 10:54 pm

BBC-Blind: Misreading the Tamil Tiger Strategy of International Blackmail, 2008-13

Michael Roberts …… A version of this article was presented at the Narratives of War Symposium organized by the University of South Australia in Adelaide on 19-20 November 2013. This is an amplified version. In reviewing the conflict between the Sinhala-dominated … Continue reading →

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January 8, 2014 · 3:16 pm

Dedicated Medical Work Amidst the Heat of War, Death and Propaganda: In the Vanni Pocket, 2009

Michael Roberts, …… courtesy of Groundviews where the essay carried a different title. In presenting the article here I have embellished it with images, maps.  It also has a few more hyperlinks. Amidst the obfuscations and cumulus clouds of propaganda … Continue reading →

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