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SRI LANKA: Deep Plot Seen in Former Tiger Turning MP

ipsnews.net » 2008 » October » 12th » SRI LANKA: Deep Plot Seen in Former Tiger Turning MP

COLOMBO, Oct 11 (IPS) - It might have been the script a Tamil blockbuster movie. When Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, eastern commander of the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), turned renegade in 2004 he could not have dreamt of being sworn in as a member of Sri Lanka’s parliament … Continue Reading »

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