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Tigers No More

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Jan 06, 2009
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The Tamil Tigers are on the run. Their ‘capital’ Kilinochchi has fallen to the Sri Lankan military and Tamil Eelam, their self-declared homeland in the island’s northeast, is doing a reasonable impression of an American bank; it has shrunk to around a tenth the size it was a year ago.

In Colombo, Sri Lanka’s all-conquering commander, President Mahinda Ra…

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