Sunday, March 1, 2009

‘Genocide’ in Sri Lanka?

(TI)Srilankans4peace, an association of Sri Lankan Americans based in Massachusetts, takes issue with Bruce Fein for his numerous missives ‘littered with factual inaccuracies and inflammatory language’.

Several recent articles in the Boston Globe have loudly and authoritatively alleged that a systematic genocide of Tamil civilians is currently taking place in Sri Lanka. Most notable of these is a recent op-ed piece published in the Globe on February 15th by Mr. Bruce Fein. Given the magnitude and gravity of such accusations –primarily leveled against two central figures of the Sri Lankan regime – it is highly problematic that these damaging claims have been backed with little substance and instead littered with factual inaccuracies and inflammatory language. Full Text