'Christian' Tamils kill Lankan Hindus

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NOTE:THE LANKAN SOURCE MAKES NO MENTION OF HINDUS DEMOLISHING A

CHURCH YET THE AP WIRE STORY THAT HAS GONE AROUND THE WORLD GIVES

THE CHRISTIANS 'AN EXCUSE' AND RATIONAL IN THIER ATTACK. THE AP

STORY ALSO FAILS TO MENTION THAT RATHER THAN A CLASH, THE HINDUS

WERE BLOWN UP, INCLUDING A 3 YR OLD, WHILE AT A FUNERAL HOME. ITS

QUITE EDUCATIONAL TO SEE THE ABUSE OF INFORMATION AND TRAGEDY BY THE

MAINSTREAM MEDIA. (CAPITALIZED FOR EMPHASIS.)

 

'Christian' Tamils kill Lankan Hindus

Grenade kills three, injures nearly 40 in Tiger-held Vakaneri

Sunday, January 9, 2005, 14:39 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed on the

spot.

Jan 09, Colombo: At least three people were killed and 38 others

were injured when a hand grenade was thrown allegedly by Wanni LTTE

cadres at a funeral house in LTTE-held Vakaneri, Valachchenai, last

night.

 

Military sources said two LTTE cadres, who were Christian, arrived

around 9 PM yesterday and threw a hand grenade at the funeral house

of a tsunami victim, who was Hindu. Three people, including an eight-

year-old boy, were killed on the spot.

 

Later the two cadres tried to escape to government-held territory in

Valachchenai but security forces arrested them and handed them over

to the police for investigations.

http://www.colombopage.com/archive/January9143902JV.html

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THE AP VERSION

Sri Lanka Explosions Kill 3, Injures 37

The Associated Press

Sunday, January 9, 2005; 12:09 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60178-2005Jan9.html

 

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Two hand grenades hurled in a clash between

Christians and Hindus killed at least three people and wounded 37

Saturday in a part of eastern Sri Lanka where international aid

workers are helping tsunami victims, police said. No aid workers

were reported injured or near the explosions at the time, officials

said.

 

Two suspected assailants were arrested soon after the attack in a

Tamil rebel-controlled area late Saturday, said V.H. Anil, a

policeman in the eastern town of Valaichchenai.

 

He said Christians were angry that Hindus had demolished a church

and may have carried out the attack in retaliation.

 

Clashes between Hindus and Christians are rare since both groups

believe they are oppressed by the country's Buddhist-Sinhalese

majority government.

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