The Olympics And The LTTE
The Olympics in the Greek days was a time of truce. The various city states stopped fighting to let athletes travel and compete in peace. One of the writers behind the London 2012 Opening Ceremony is calling for that truce to be restored during the modern Olympics, and to a degree this separate field is accepted. Not, however, by what’s left of the LTTE. A few people are protesting Sri Lanka’s participation in the games at all, like the young people above, standing with a portrait of the late terrorist Prabhakaran.
It’s really quite sad that whatever real issues and contributions these people could make are obscured by a terrorist flag and a selfish and futile call to exclude an entire country from the Olympic Games. It’s an impotent protest and the LTTE is crumbling further and further in the diaspora. It’s still weird to see this stuff come up when you search ‘Sri Lanka Olympics’ on YouTube, even if it’s only a few people with a few hundred views.
Mohsin Hamid, author of How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia, has a nice 
I’m happy to be featured in Echelon magazine’s 40 Under 40 feature, profiling young people who contribute to the economy in some way, mainly in business but also in terms of innovation and thought leadership. It’s an interesting article not just in that I’m in it (mainly for work on indi.ca and 
I won’t add too much commentary, but just read I guess. The youngest Rajapaksa, Rohitha (Chi Chi) has given an amazing interview to the 
In 2009 this strange character appeared on the Sri Lankan Internet scene, getting angry, flaming, trolling whatever. Then he started naming anonymous bloggers, posting comments as people’s kids, nasty stuff, for which I removed him from 
I know it’s crude to say this, but these particular Tamil peeps are kinda like flotsam and jetsam [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flotsam_and_jetsam ] — no real country of their own, floating around in a world of self delusion and hatred, and basically being a waste of space. It’s all a bit sad really. The demise of the LTTE must have really shattered their world to the core.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
Even when they take your children and make bombs out of them?
It’s was not the other man’s child. The other man tends to live in Birmingham in these cases
There’s something rather sad and pathetic about this picture of kids at the Olympics wrapping themselves in the LTTE flag and in the Union Jack. What exactly are they trying to achieve – other than giving MR a temporary boost? Trying to prove to the Brits that they’re patriotic British citizens? : )
http://tinyurl.com/d64loyc
These German Tamil kids in the video talk in heavy German accents about “our country” and “fighting for one nation”. Hmmmm… If the pro-LTTE diaspora didn’t exist, MR would have to invent them.