The UTHR(J) is not known for its love towards the LTTE. It’s one time leader and revered academic Rajini Thiranagama was killed by the LTTE. Even today, it’s present leadership lives in fear and in hiding in light of the threats by the LTTE who are opposed to that which the UTHR9J) regularly publishes as reports on the human condition in the embattled North and East of Sri Lanka. These reports are some of the best and most impartial accounts of the conflict I have read and have a wide international recognition.
Their recent report, Can the East be won through Human Culling? Special Economic Zones â An Ideological Journey Back to 1983, is important in this regard. Often, the Sinhala media only publishes sections of the report against the LTTE. The Tamil newspapers often have no answers for what is published in these reports.
My article is based on excerpts from this report, translated into Sinhala, that I believe are vital for the Sinhala speaking community to be made aware of. Given that they will probably never be published in Government media, it is vital that they serve as a counterpoint to Government propaganda.
Download my article in full here and please read the UTHR(J)’s report in full here. My complete article is also available online here.
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