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Young Tamils swap bombs for BlackBerrys
Sunday, 18 October 2009 - 4:00 AM SL Time
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Bala Muhunthan has that high-class hip-hop look: Dolce & Gabbana jeans, tight polo shirt, chunky silver ID tags worn as pendants and an ever-present, ever-beeping BlackBerry. Privately educated in Denmark and the UK, the 22-year-old lives in London and attends a leading business school. Muhunthan spends his weekend nights at members bars or parties in Mayfair. Saturday afternoons, he plays golf or football with his friends. I love London. I love the fast life, he says.
But at the start of April, Muhunthan took a step outside the fast life: alongside thousands of fellow Sri Lankan Tamils, he stood in front of the Houses of Parliament, demanding a ceasefire in Buddhist Sri Lanka s bloody offensive against Hindu Tamil separatists, which was reaching a violent climax after 25 years of on-off fighting. To Londoners accepting pamphlets from the protesters whose actions were replicated over the following weeks in Paris and New York it may have seemed a clear-cut case of might versus right. But the Tamil struggle for an independent state in Sri Lanka has been spearheaded by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) deemed by the west to be one of the world s most sophisticated terrorist groups.
In the end, the protests were in vain. In May, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka s president, declared the final defeat of the Tigers and the conclusion of one of Asia s longest-running civil wars. The armed struggle for independence had been crushed: in the course of a five-month-long military surge, the Tamil separatists who once controlled swathes of the island s north and east had lost all their territory. Their infamous leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was dead.
But that ending was also a beginning. Muhunthan, who devoted so much time to the protests that he had to retake the final year of his degree, has, along with many other young Tamils overseas, experienced a political awakening. As one generation of the Tamil diaspora sees its struggle for Eelam, an independent homeland, end in failure, their sons and daughters who have spent their formative years in the west are taking up the struggle. But they will fight it on their terms, using their strengths, fomenting a BlackBerry revolution.
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Lion5Den
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 17 Oct 2009 21:14:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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Blackberry revolutionists - please dont go the way of Raj Rajaratnam who has been arrested in US for insider trading.
Edited By - Lion5Den - 17 Oct 2009 21:15:59 GMT |
EEELamaya
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 17 Oct 2009 21:30:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Young Tamils swap bombs for BlackBerrys
Tamils are gearing up to make Tamil Century...!
The Tamil Nation is waiting....! First in India and then to Tamil Homelands in Sri Lanka...
The day Tamils will claim their former habitats in whole of Sri Lanka is coming...! |
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 17 Oct 2009 21:43:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Young Tamils swap bombs for BlackBerrys
Not Black berries
but
Mc berries
Edited By - Udawatte - 17 Oct 2009 21:44:30 GMT |
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17 Oct 2009 22:46:01 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Mr B this not worth the keyboard it was typed on or to be a headline discussion on LNP . where is your sense of standard . |
Spetsnaz1
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 18 Oct 2009 00:24:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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where is your sense of standard
your speaking as if you got very high standards....lol umbata gaumak dakinna ba LNP eke mokak hari gu kathawak ekata kiyanawa... nikan palayan Saradiel yanna... |
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18 Oct 2009 00:46:57 GMT Report for Abuse
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alongside thousands of fellow Sri Lankan Tamils, he stood in front of the Houses of Parliament, demanding a ceasefire
Much good did it to those donkeys to be supporting that McHUNGER STRIKER.
their sons and daughters who have spent their formative years in the west are taking up the struggle. But they will fight it on their terms, using their strengths, fomenting a BlackBerry revolution.
They couldn't achieve Eelam in 30 years with guns and bombs, how do they expect to achieve Eelam with Blackberry's? |
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 18 Oct 2009 00:53:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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umbata gaumak dakinna ba
Have some sympathy on the guy, the guy could have a face even a mother finds difficult loving. If the guy is getting none at least let him have some on LNP, |
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18 Oct 2009 00:58:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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how do they expect to achieve Eelam with Blackberry's?
Don't underestimate the pen specially with networking. If not for the blackberry and networking, Hilary would have been the Dem candidate not Obama. |
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