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Monday, June 13, 2005

Religion, politics and tsunami aid

Intractable religious and political differences trouble tsunami relief distribution in Sri Lanka. The BBC reports:

"Police in Sri Lanka have used teargas and batons to break up a protest by Buddhist monks opposed to a tsunami-aid deal with Tamil rebels... 'If the president thinks one life is not enough, we can offer thousands of lives,' a spokesman for the monks, Kalawelgala Chandraloka, said. "
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