All Christians ? or some Buddhist Baptised after death? The event which came to be known as ‘Black July’ started off after the LTTE ambushed a Sri Lankan military convoy on the 23rd of July outside Jaffna, in Northern Sri Lanka. The attack results in 15 Sinhalese soldiers dying.…
Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org) Home > Army of God? 6 Modern-Day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About Army of God? 6 Modern-Day Christian Terrorist Groups You Never Hear About By Alex Henderson [1] / AlterNet [2] April 1, 2015 The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) recently released an in-depth report on terrorism in the United States. Covering…
Sri Lanka’s Punguduthivu: An island devastated by war By Subash Somachandran and M. Kalaimaaran 24 June 2015 Punguduthivu Island, 20 kilometres southwest of Jaffna, was the scene of a gang rape and murder of a teenage student, Vithya Sivalohanathan, on May 13 that triggered mass protests in the war-ravaged north…
LTTE Christian Ties While most Tamil people are Hindus, they also have significant populations of Christians and Muslims in both India and Sri Lanka. The LTTE, the Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil separatist group that engaged in terrorist activities, was not a “Hindu group.” The tigers’ ideology on paper was mostly…