Sri Lanka's Tamil farmers fight to reclaim land after civil war
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Sri Lanka's Tamil farmers fight to reclaim land after civil war
At shift change, farmers exchange news before settling beneath a tarpaulin beside photographs of the bloodied bodies of their dead cows. "They have been shooting our cattle, threatening us, assaulting us, and spraying pesticides or poison on the pasture lands where our cattle graze," said Seenithamby Thiyagarajah, president of the local farmers' association, detailing the push his community felt from recipients of a state-funded program that was…
For more than three years, Tamil herders in eastern Sri Lanka have been taking turns under a tarpaulin to denounce the theft of their pastures. They accuse of... Read article Sri Lanka, Tamil herders have been camping for three years for their land has appeared first on Le Singulier.
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