121. The Legacy Project: Legacy Events Index The fighting was some of the worst between the sri Lankan government and rebel Tamil forces; the sri Lankan government estimated that about 1200 people were http://www.legacy-project.org/events/display.html?ID=20

122. Asia Times Online - The Best News Coverage From South Asia The sri Lankan government has declared a state of emergency and, along with the The truth is that the sri Lankan government, I think, is in shock too, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GA04Df06.html

var zflag_nid="305"; var zflag_cid="61/1"; var zflag_sid="50"; var zflag_width="1"; var zflag_height="1"; var zflag_sz="15"; Search Asia Times Advanced Search South Asia India, Sri Lanka count the cost By Jayanthi Iyengar PUNE - It is the saddest commentary that one of the world's worst human tragedies may actually have limited economic impact. Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurer, announced late last week that it expected its damage claims resulting from the tsunamis that hit Asia to be less than US$135 million. In a press statement issued last Tuesday, it said it did not expect claims related to the world's strongest earthquake in 40 years to change its forecast of 2004 profits of between $2.4 billion and $2.7 billion. "Judging by the information it has received so far, the Munich Re Group expects its own burden to be limited, with a figure currently under [$135 million]," Munich Re said in the statement, adding that it needed more time for a better estimate. "This means that at present there is no reason to adjust the result forecast for the current business year," it said.

123. Refugees International: Articles: Forgotten People: Upcountry Tamils From Sri La After independence in 1948 the sri Lankan government felt that the The sri Lankan government give citizenship to the stateless Upcountry Tamils http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/4002/

Search: Home About Us Donate Where We Work ... Contact Us Forgotten People: Upcountry Tamils from Sri Lanka living in refugee camps in India Why are Upcountry Tamils forgotten? About 30,000 Upcountry Tamils, who fled to India from Sri Lanka to escape the civil war between majority Buddhist Sinhalese and minority Hindu Tamils, reside throughout some 100 refugee camps in India’s Tamil Nadu state according to a recent survey done in the camps. The ancestors of the Upcountry Tamils were taken from India to work in the tea estates of Sri Lanka by the British around 200 years ago. When Sri Lanka got its independence from the British in 1948, the new predominantly Sinhalese government used the Ceylon Citizenship Act of 1948 and the Indian and Pakistani Residents Acts of 1949 to make the Upcountry Tamils stateless. The fundamental reason for the neglect of the Upcountry Tamils is that since colonial times they have been bonded laborers on the tea estates and have never been integrated into the political and cultural life of Sri Lanka. Their lack of political power, deriving from their statelessness, and the resulting fact that Tamil political leaders in Sri Lanka, both mainstream politicians and the leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), see them as a downtrodden population unworthy of attention combine to leave them marginalized. Few organizations or individuals take up their cause, and lack of access to the camps in India prevents large-scale support and solidarity.

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