By Ashok K Mehta(May 13, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian)
The people of Tamil Nadu will be voting today with echoes of Eelam still ringing in their ears. To the military axiom that truth is the first casualty of war, one can add, ‘and during election in Tamil Nadu’. There are several versions of the Wanni war in Sri Lanka and India. Forget the manipulation of truth in the so-called No Fire Zone which was anything but that, now disingenuously named New Safe Zone where ‘combat operations’ had officially ceased on April 27 after a false claim by India that it was under its pressure that Sri Lankan guns had fallen silent. Full text
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