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South Asia in general
Documents for Tamil history and the civil war
General and political history
- Building a Left Wing in Sri Lanka
- Green Left Weekly interviews Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne, general secretary of the NSSP. 27 February, 1995.
- U.S. Quietly Expands its Role in Sri Lanka. Green Berets help train soldiers, open paths for military presence
- By Mark Kaufman (Philadelphia Inquirer), in The Dallas Morning News, 30 June, 1996.
- Reuters and Reality
- By Nanda K. Ganesan. 19 July, 1996. Reporters working for the international news agencies are Sinhalese and give a rosy and distorted picture of events, quite in contrast with reports in local papers in Colombo.
- United States Policy in Sri Lanka
- 17 August, 1996. Suggests an analogy with US Vietnam involvment.
Economy and environment
- Oil installation fires at Colombo, Sri Lanka
- From Institute for Tropical Environmental Studies News, 1 November, 1995. Focus on the ennvironmental impact of the fires caused by terrorists.
- From Rags to the Rag Trade
- By Ramani Jayasundere, for the Women's Feature Service. 30 November, 1995. Booming small-scale garment industry; its effect on workers, especially women.
Labor
- Power unions stop privatization
- From Workers World, 13 April, 1995. Brief news report on labor's opposition to privatization.
Society
- Introduction to Nirmanee
- A Sri Lanka newspaper from women. 15 February, 1995.
- Sex Tourists Prey On Sri Lankan Children
- By Sue Lloyd-Roberts. 12 January, 1997. Re European pedophiles.
Culture
- Sri Lanka village takes on Voice of America
- By Kathryn Hamilton, in Green Left Weekly, 8 May, 1996. Villagers object to facility for the US propaganda agency, and concerns for cultural imperialism.
