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Video Segment 7517 - Paul Harris on LTTE - 30 minute audio clip
Friday, 30 June 2006 - 1:51 AM SL Time - Some news pictures are worth a million words



30 minute audio clip - Paul Harris works internationally as a writer and conflict analyst, presently based in Shanghai, China. For ten years he was Specialist Contributor Global Insurgency & Terrorism for Jane`s Intelligence Review. He wrote conflict reports for Janes from Sri Lanka, Bosnia, Kosovo, Aceh, East Timor, Nepal, NE India, Nagorno Karabakh, the Sahara, Uganda and Algeria. He has published more than 40 books including `Cry Bosnia`, `Fractured Paradise: Images of Sri Lanka`, and `Somebody Else`s War`.

He was forced to leave Sri Lanka in November 2002 following a campaign of harassment directed from the office of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. `The Island` newspaper observed the day he was expelled, in an Editorial headed `Hands off Harris`, `Paul Harris is no run of the mill foreign correspondent . . . he has exposed (LTTE) violations of basic human rights.

Somebody Else`s War: Frontline Reports from the Balkan Wars (1992)
Cry Bosnia (1995)
Fractured Paradise: Images of Sri Lanka (2000)
Specialist Contributor Global Insurgency & Terrorism for Jane`s Intelligence
Review 1993-2001

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AnuD
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LK Information  29 Jun 2006 19:54:04 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Why we don't invite him again to SL.

Whether he accepts or not he should be given honorary citizenship in Sri Lanka.
Edited By - AnuD - 1 Jul 2006 01:36:30 GMT
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LK Information  29 Jun 2006 20:11:55 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Very good factual analysis

We should wait for the terrorist supporters to comment on this report.
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LK Information  29 Jun 2006 20:14:40 GMT  Report for Abuse  
This is the best analysis of LTTE I have ever come accross. Thanks for the LNP member who submitted this.

Members, please turn your speakers ON. At 1st I didn't know this is a 30 minute audio clip playing here.

Where was this guy now? We need him back in SL now!!
Edited By - wijehewa - 29 Jun 2006 20:38:09 GMT
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This is the real commence about the brutal killing machine in sri lanka which call L.T.T.E terrorists
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LK Information  29 Jun 2006 22:06:26 GMT  Report for Abuse  
What an eye oppening speech. Does anybody know how to download this clip?
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LK Information  29 Jun 2006 22:33:51 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Is this a sign of beginning of the end for LiTTlE?
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LK Information  29 Jun 2006 22:56:58 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Excellent analysis.

facts/information/knwoledge/wisdom
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LK Information  29 Jun 2006 23:06:08 GMT  Report for Abuse  
He is one of the reporters who is not on so called IC's pay packet. All BBC newly recruited, newly converted bias reporters are disgarce to free press.
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Our Freedom Struggle: Exposing Rotten Tomato!

Tamil:
Hello Mr. Paul Harris! I had a chance to listen your speech. I like to confess first, it was very intriguing and inspiring speech. Since you are an 'expert' in this matter, can you tell me how did you conduct your research?

Paul:
I read all the news papers that came out within couples of years from the Colombo based news houses.

Tamil:
Anything else!

Paul:
Since, you are a pain in my neck! I will tell you more, my friend. I traveled in all the trouble waters and I saw things. Finally, I combined all the facts and drew my own conclusion.

Tamil:
Did you have any chance to live in Northern and Eastern parts of Island for, let's say, at least a year?

Paul:
North and East! Are you crazy, man? I didn't see any five stars hotels there.

Tamil:
Did you interview any Tamils in North and East, at least in South?

Paul:
Can you count Douglas Devanatha and V.Anandasangaree as Tamils?

Tamil:
I doubt it! Since, you are a crooked intellectual I like to ask a question.

Paul:
That is a only thing you are doing since we met.

Tamil:
Let's say, When a few armed men killed 13 soldiers, what a 'democratically elected' Government should have done?

Paul:
I don't know! Go after those armed men? I guess.

Tamil:
Do you know what happened in 56, 77, and 83?

Paul:
Sri Lanka won Cricket World Cup?

Tamil:
Do you know how we felt when Sinhalese Governments had driven out Tamils from their lands to colonize the East?

Paul:
Colonized the East! I thought British Empire had ended those policies in 1948. Wait! Who colonized...what?

Tamil:
I have to leave now! It seems to me you have to do some real homeworks.

Paul:
Wait! Where are you going now? Who will answer to these questions? Can I ask Sangaree?
Edited By - Sritharan - 29 Jun 2006 23:50:43 GMT
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The 'Colonel':

I think I got into your skin. Don't scratch too hard yourself, people will think you got 'rash'.
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