Let's support the Sri Lankans

[Churchill]

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Which, if anyone is interested, is up for sale. ;o)

is about to get torched!

Shirley?

[Doggy Styles]

Tamil Tigers, I love that. It's really good alliteration for a resistance group, If I was going to be a terrorist I would rather be a Tamil Tiger than in boring Al Quaeda.
I would like to join the 'Contractors Contras' or the 'Freelance Frenzy'

Good work EO. We'll make a freedom fighter of you yet.

[Cheshire Cat]

Maybe i've not been paying enough attention to the papers, but what have the UK govt got to do with this business in Sri Lanka?

[Troll]

Maybe i've not been paying enough attention to the papers, but what have the UK govt got to do with this business in Sri Lanka?

£5 million in aid so far... Sri Lanka is also expecting the UN i.e. the West to pick up the tab for fixing the result of the war

[Doggy Styles]

Didn't Milliband tell the Sri Lankans to lay off attacking the Tamil Tigers? Or it might have been the other way round, who knows. Anyway, he stuck his oar in and upset one lot.

[xoggoth]

I strongly disagree with burning effigies of Milliband, the real thing would be much more fun. Those ears would really flare up.

[NickNick]

Maybe i've not been paying enough attention to the papers, but what have the UK govt got to do with this business in Sri Lanka?

IIRC the UK govt brought the Tamils in as cheap labour to build in SL. When the work was finished, the Tamils then didn't get what they were promised and were left to rot.

I'm paraphrasing here of course.

[Troll]

IIRC the UK govt brought the Tamils in as cheap labour to build in SL. When the work was finished, the Tamils then didn't get what they were promised and were left to rot.

I'm paraphrasing here of course.

Where were they bought in from?

[EternalOptimist]

IIRC the UK govt brought the Tamils in as cheap labour to build in SL. When the work was finished, the Tamils then didn't get what they were promised and were left to rot.

I'm paraphrasing here of course.

I dont think so. My dad was based in a place known as Trincomalee in the NE of Ceylon in WWII. It was a Tamil area and always had been for thousands of years. They loved the Brits because we protected them (from the Hindu IIRC)

[Doggy Styles]

Where were they bought in from?

Ceylon, which is next to Sri Lanka.