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Taming the TigersBRUSSELS – Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country’s Tamil minority.

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In Sri Lanka, a decades-long civil war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.

Within that sphere, most of those nodes are not actionable, like the harshness of the terrain, and a very small minority are actual military actions.

And that all stems from the perception of atheists as some kind of weird, way-out minority.

She clearly feels in a beleaguered minority.

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