By reducing the Sri Lankan states multi-faceted repression of the Tamils to simply a problem of human rights abuses, the international community is avoiding the central question of Tamil self-determination and, through the logic of reform, seeking to legitimize its efforts to strengthen the Sri Lankan state, the Tamil Guardian newspaper argued this week. For the Tamils, the atrocities inflicted on them by the Sri Lankan security forces are a symptom, an indicator of the racist logic of the Sinhala-dominated state; for the international community, they are the problem itself i.e. end the abuses and thus solve the crisis, the papers editorial said. ...
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