As Sri Lanka’s protracted war reaches its final stages, the communal propaganda being whipped up in Colombo by the entire political and media establishment has reached fever pitch. Its purpose is to suppress any criticism or opposition to the government’s crimes against the Tamil people as it prepares for an economic offensive against working people as a whole.
President Mahinda Rajapakse justifies his communal war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) under the phoney banner of “the war against terrorism”. On the pretext of fighting terrorism, the country has been placed on a war footing. The government routinely denounces criticism of its policies, no matter how mild, as “supporting the Tiger terrorists”—a charge that can bring harassment, imprisonment without charge and in some cases, summary execution at the hands of pro-government death squads. More...
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