Tamil Interview and Flag Convoy (Vid)

This is an interview with a Tamil flower garland seller. He’s not entirely comfortable, but he’s talking about how he feels the war is incomplete until Tamils have equal rights, which I agree with. This is linked to from the prior post of interviews, but I thought I’d highlight it. He’s not being especially frank or anything, but near the end you can hear a flag convoy coming and then I got some video of that passing the St. Anthony’s Church and entering that part of town. So you can kinda see what it’s like on the street right now.

Posted on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 in GoSL, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Video, tamils, war.

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Comment by DC
2009-05-21 12:30:31

I don’t think any other Sri Lankans were allowed up north either. The ltte uprooted whole Muslim and Sinhalese families from the North and East. Muslim and Sinhalese students in Jaffna uni were intimidated, singled out and had to be transferred to Colombo uni to study. So the story goes both ways. But I do understand moderate Tamils rather keep their opinions to themselves. Maybe in time it’ll be ok .We just need to be sensitive and look towards to a better united future.

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Comment by Gadgetgirl
2009-05-21 17:30:36

He’s so afraid to give out his opinions sometimes.

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Comment by Gini Appu
2009-05-22 14:57:01

Its incredibly irresponsible to put this man on video and on the net and to ask him to play with the a series of live grenades…

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Comment by Electra
2009-05-23 20:19:06

Indi, I must confess I did have similar fears for all the people you’ve put up here. I don’t know. What do you think?

Did you have their permission?

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