Comments on: The Thirty Year Old Boy https://groundviews.org/2010/05/21/the-thirty-year-old-boy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-thirty-year-old-boy Journalism for Citizens Fri, 21 May 2010 23:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: indonicus https://groundviews.org/2010/05/21/the-thirty-year-old-boy/#comment-19326 Fri, 21 May 2010 23:13:03 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=3240#comment-19326 Foodie, foodie, foodie,

How long wil guys keep missing the point!

]]> By: Foodie https://groundviews.org/2010/05/21/the-thirty-year-old-boy/#comment-19276 Fri, 21 May 2010 10:15:50 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=3240#comment-19276 that 100,000 relations
are still under lock and key
in the Northern camps,

They’re not under lock and key. The camps are open now, in case you hadn’t noticed. They’re have to stay in the camps because the LTTE didn’t keep mine maps and demining the areas requires manual grid walking which is like emptying a tank with a dropper.

war tourists,
the gawkers
in search of
burnt-up pick-up
trucks, and the family
members
who want to see
where their sons
and daughters died.

They come there because they’re curious to see a place they’ve never been allowed to see. After all, while Tamils were not kept out of the south, the Sinhalese and those Tamils who the LTTE considered a threat were kept out of the North under pain of death.

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