What NYTimes.com did not include in '31 places to visit'
The following letter appears in the Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, Jan 31, 2010:
To the Editor: Regarding "The 31 Places to Go in 2010" (Jan. 10): I am surprised you included Sri Lanka as one of the 31 places to visit.
It appears your newspaper seems to have forgotten the innumerable human rights violations committed by successive Sri Lankan governments, the worst being by the present regime. Journalists have disappeared; people with independent views were abducted and whereabouts not known; massacre of the Tamils by the army in May 2009; no press freedom and no law and order.
Pon Thangarajah
Los Angeles
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~ Maya's tweet to NY Times: "Get your priorities straight"
3 Comments
Yet Pon Thangarajah has no problem living in the USA which has killed more than 600 000 civlians in Iraq, many more in Aghanistan, killed 2 million in Vietnam, thousands more in Korea, nuclear bombed Japan, supported brutal puppet regimes in South America....
Richie believes that Sri Lanka could be ruthless to her own people as long as there are countries that disregard humanity. Though it is deplorable US actions in other countries, it is safe to be in the USA since the USA is not committing atrocities in its own soil. Richie, with your arrogance do not even imagine if SL could reach out of her border just to be like the US. (Or is it your reasoning that SL can be this bad only to her citizen in her own land?)
The difference between the situation in Iraq and SL is, in Iraq the citizens are killed by Alqaeda terrorist and in SL the Tamil citizens are killed by the SL Army. Killing the Tamils is the policy of SL government.