Queue For Pongal Rice
People waiting in a queue in Jaffna to buy 1kg red rice and and 1kg
brown sugar for Thai Pongal (festival) on 15.1.07. January is the first pongal for farmers day where they prepare sweet rice and share with neighbors and
relatives annually. This year pongal celebrations are not celebrated
happily as there is a shortage of rice and brown sugar.
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As someone who advocates an amputative strategy of granting a seperate and completely independent Tamil state in the Jaffna peninsula, I think it’s time they took the matter of self substinency a little bit more seriously. After cessation is granted, the North will be confronted with a mass exodus of Tamils from the hostile South, which will restrict trade with the North. There will be no military cooperative shops handing out free food rations and A9 would be closed for good. The Tamils will be left to their own devices. If the LTTE and the Tamils want freedom, they must start figuring out how to fend for themselves without the help of the Sri Lankan government and the Sinhalese people.
you are living proof that sinhalese extremists positions tally perfectly with the tamil extremists.
But playing along with the hypothetical secession , why would the ‘south’ not want to trade with the north?
if they build that bridge with India, I’m sure the south would want a piece of that pie, or cake as you might want to call it.
Deane, the point was that they cannot fight against us and expect us to feed and clothe them. If they are fighting for independence, why do they have to depend on the Sri Lankan government?