Subject: No War, No Peace: Crisis and Opportunity in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 12:52:52 -0500 Message-ID: <B14120EE5C432443B21102F7925DAD02014B55FE@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Goulet, Marc R." <gouletmr@uwec.edu>
FORUM PRESENTATION
RITA WEBB, NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE TEAM MEMBER IN SRI LANKA
Sunday, May 15
8:45 to 9:45 a.m.
UUC sanctuary
No War, No Peace: Crisis and Opportunity in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka
From Rita:
"The situation in the East where I am posted is the most volatile in the
country, although there is trouble enough to go around. A prominent
Tamil journalist was abducted and murdered last week in Colombo for
example; and last night there was a big explosion up the street from our
office in Batticaloa District, which we presume was a grenade aimed at
the local EPDP office, which has been attacked repeatedly, as they are
seen as key political rivals to the main faction of the LTTE (which is
why their offices tend to be adjacent to Sri Lanka army camps, to little
effect apparently). Soldiers running past our gate said there was "no
problem"...a common Sri Lankan (public) response no matter what! It's
extremely complex, especially post-tsunami, and I'll try to give a sense
of the complexities, our team's work, and the current efforts in our
district from creating a civil society to responding to the violence
that so proscribes and threatens the lives and livelihoods of the Tamil
people. "
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