Ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka

It's difficult to talk dispassionately about what is going on in my country, when the horror of what the government is doing to a civilian Tamil population - already shelled and burned out of their existence and now herded into concentration camps and starved of food and medicine - revisits me to the pogrom of 1958 when my parents' house was attacked by a Sinhalese mob, my nephew had petrol thrown on him and burnt alive, and friends and relatives disappeared into refugee camps. more..