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From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: For Lankan Rugby Fans...
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:54:31 GMT

South Africa, Ireland to make international debut at 1993 
Hong Kong Rugby Sevens

	South Africa and  Ireland will  make their international
seven-a-side debut at the 1993 Cathay Pacific/Hongkong Bank Invi-
tation Seven-A-Side Rugby Tournament (The Sevens) in Hong Kong.

	They will join 22 other teams at  the event, which  will
take place over the weekend of March 27 and 28.
 
	The full line-up for the  1993 Sevens is American Eagles,
Argentina,  Australia,  Canada, Fiji, Hong  Kong, Ireland, Italy,
Japan, Korea, Kwang-Hua, Taipei, Malaysia, Namibia, New  Zealand,
Papua New Guinea, Romania, Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU)
Seven, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Tonga, Welsh
President's Seven and Western Samoa.

	Scotland, who  won the  Dubai Sevens  in Nov. 1992, will
return to Hong Kong  after a year's  break, while  Italy will be
competing in the territory for the first time since 1989.  Wales,
the first country from the Five Nations  Championship to send an
international side to the  Hong  Kong  Sevens in  1990, will  be
represented by a President's Seven.  Teams which have played pre-
viously in the event but  will not be playing  this year include
the Arabian Gulf, the Barbarians, France, Germany  and the Irish
Wolfhounds; both England and France declined the  invitation due
to domestic fixtures.

	The entertaining Fijans, who will be  chasing an unprece-
dented fourth consecutive  Hong Kong Sevens title, the World Cup-
holders  Australia, last year's  runner-up New  Zealand  and the
Western Samoans have all confirmed their attendance.
 
	Nineteen of the  24 teams playing in Hong Kong next year
will go on to the World Cup, which will be staged at Murrayfield
in Edinburgh just three weeks after the Hong Kong Sevens.

	The 1993  Hong Kong Sevens will once  again be played in
the Government Stadium  in Happy Valley.  The  capacity  of  the
partly-refurbished Stadium will have  increased from last year's
29,400 to 33,000.  The ticket  sale system  introduced last year
will continue: of  the total  available, 10,200  tickets will be
sold to supporters overseas; 15,650 adults' and 1,450 children's
tickets will be  allocated to local  rugby  clubs and  the Rugby
Union Club; and the remaining 8,000  adults' and 950  children's
tickets will go on  sale to the  general public in  Hong Kong on
Jan. 31 at Victoria Park.  Tickets are priced at HK$320 (approxi-
mately US$41) for adults and HK$130 (approximately US$16.66) for
children 12 and under.
 
	A special five night land  and air package to attend the
1993 Hong Kong Sevens is available  from Tickets  and Travel  in
New York at tel: 212/787-8490 or 800-84-RUGBY.

	The Hong Kong  Sevens has  become  the  world's  premier
seven-a-side rugby tournament and one of the most exciting sport-
ing fixtures on Hong Kong's extensive calendar of events.


===
From  A Business Wire Report

Vicky:
UMass, Jan 23
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: purwinto@rodan.acs.syr.EDU ()
Subject: PEACE: To whom it may concern
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 21:03:19 EST


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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:36:40 EST
Reply-To: CFE Graduate Student List <CFEGRAD@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was CFELIST@SUVM
From: FKELLE@SUVM.SYR.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list CFEGRAD <CFEGRAD@SUVM.SYR.EDU>

Some of you may be interested, so I thought I would send this along to
the crowd and hope to catch a few possible participants.  Peace, I think
that's what this is about, Fay
_____________________________________________________________________________

To all supporters of peace and justice in former Yugoslavia:

Action for Peace in the Balkans, a multiethnic, San Francisco Bay
Area-based peace group, has organized a nationwide telegram hotline to
President Bill Clinton, urging him to seek a peaceful solution to this
conflict. The telegram reads:

"I oppose military intervention or lifting the arms embargo in the civil war 
in former Yugoslavia.  Such action will fuel the fighting, prolong civilian 
suffering, and lead to an even wider conflict in the region. Exercise 
evenhanded diplomacy and pressure the three warring sides in Bosnia and 
Hercegovina to negotiate a mutually acceptable political solution."

The procedure for using the hotline is as follows:

1. Call (800) 372-2626 (Western Union, Telegram Hotlines)

2. Ask for hotline no. 9337; it will be identified as "Peace in the
Balkans"; the recepient and begining of text will be confirmed (full text
also read on demand; however, note that within this hotline the text is not
alterable)

3. You will be asked for a name and address of the sender, as well as your
home phone number; a $6.95 charge will appear on your next telephone bill
(however, you can call from any phone)

4. You may (optionally) provide your name and address to the organizers.


We urge you to take part in and advertise broadly this action, which will
be taking place for a limited time after inauguration. Our new
administration's policy on this issue has apparently not been set yet, but
defining it is its highest foreign policy priority. This is why it is of
paramount importance to immediately  let them know that military
intervention is *not* a viable option. This message must be sent in a
clear, visible and organized way, and this action serves that purpose.
Certainly, other means of voicing your opinion on the subject remain
equally important as before. But we ask you to take this action seriously,
since only many thousands of telegrams can make a difference.


ACTION FOR PEACE IN THE BALKANS

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
Subject: Re: Re-None
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:48:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.082502.6544@fuug.fi> an7658@anon.penet.fi writes:
>Where do they get the money and arms to fight the Sri-Lankan
>Govt ?
>I dont like the Sri-Lankan Army but I HOPE THEY BUY A LOT OF
>BOMBS, NAPALM AND SEND THE REST OF THE LTTE SCUM TO JOIN THIER
>FRIEND KITU.

I like this sort of an argument because guess what the average Tamil Joe Bloe
is thinking, "I don't like the Tigers, but ..."  Just put the name Tigers where-
ever you see the army and you get the picture.  This is total nonsense.  In my 
opinion this just a facade for the total indolence of the so-called educated 
elite to take responsibilities.  Look what started the mess, arguments about 
trivialities like university admissions and such.  If you look at who's doing 
the fighting, it is not the doctors, or the engineers, but just oridinary poor 
folk who don't know what they are fighting for.  Needless to say there must be
a lot of bilking by these elite as the government buys the weapons.
From: ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Air ticket to Lanka (was Re: Why not me?)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 20:56:29 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

In article <1993Jan23.173842.17400@cunews.carleton.ca> cs300002@mach.scs.carleton.ca (Chulaka Ailapperuma) writes:
>
>Please note, however that this is not legal (Shri Lanka). The Constitution
>still says "Sri Lanka". As far as I know, no one changed the Constitution.

And as far as I know, its still in the same place and the shape has not 
changed either. The name might change every few decades but the place we
call home is still there as are its pleasures and problems.


>
>BTW Does anyone know how to get a good price for a plane ticket for SL ?

>|Chulaka Ailapperuma    | School of Computer Science  |

YES!

There is a travel agent in Palm Springs, California.
He is a friend of mine and I got a great deal on tickets to Lanka.

Los Angeles to Colombo costs $1050.00 (RoundTrip) and $666.00 (OneWay).
The airline is Thai and you get a free hotel night in Bangkok.
He accepts credit cards as well as cheques/cash/money orders.

He also told me that he can get good fares from Canada and the East Coast
to Lanka.

The name of his travel agency is: A-Mex Travels
				  P.O.Box 9522
				  Palm Springs, CA 92263.

		Telephone Number: 619-325-5338
			Fax Numb: 619-322-9381

Ask for ANTON MAHINDA or "Bunis" (if you want a discount). ;->

I will post this on SLNet as well so that it can be added onto the 
list of Travel Agents.

- Vasee
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Needed: Definition of Crocodile Tears
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:29:00 GMT

The following was taken from a Report of Xinhua News Agency.

	The former Prime Minister  who is also the leader  of the
Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the  biggest  opposition  party  in  the
country, said that her  party is  deeply  disturbed that  current
events  could lead to a  renewal of an  unwanted war with all its
horrifying implications.  "We are  deeply  concerned  that unless
conflicts are resolved with  restraint on either  side, it is the
ordinary peace loving people who suffer the tragic consequences,"
Mrs Bandaranaike said.  She said that her party urged all parties
to resolve any outstanding  differences through  negotiations and
diplomatic channels and prevent a resurgence of conflict.

	Well, this was not about her  country or "her" people who
face numerous troubles in the North and East because of the bloody
war. SLFP candidate Hector Kobbekaduwa defeated Mr JR Jeyawardena
in the presidential election only in Jaffna district.  

	Full text of the report follows:

===

western countries urged to solve differences in middle east through
negotiations

	former prime minister sirimao bandaranaike today exhorted
western countries  to resolve differences  in middle east through
dialogue and negotiations. in her statement on the recent attacks
by western  countries  on iraq, mrs  bandaranaike  said  that the
world  heaved a sign  of relief with the end of the 1991 gulf war 
which ended a  major conflagration  in the middle  east that cost
countless lives  and caused  unimagined destruction.  the  former
prime minister who is also the leader  of the  sri lanka  freedom
party, the biggest opposition party in the country, said that her
party is  deeply  disturbed that  current events  could lead to a
renewal of an  unwanted war with all its  horrifying implications.
"we are  deeply concerned that unless conflicts are resolved with
restraint on either  side, it is the ordinary peace loving people
who suffer the tragic  consequences," mrs bandaranaike said.  she
said that her party urged all parties  to resolve any outstanding
differences through negotiations and diplomatic  channels and pre-
vent a resurgence of conflict in the middle east region.


Thanks: The Xinhua General Overseas News Service

====

Vicky:
UMass, Jan 26
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: 3469AC@gmuvax.gmu.edu
Subject: Re: Worse than World War II Days...?
Date: 28 Jan 93 23:04:00 EST
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In article <19762.2b67be1e@ecs.umass.edu>, vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu writes:
|> This news piece was from The British Broadcasting Corporation.
|> 
|> Even during the World War, the postal service was not distrupted.
|> According to Jaffna post Office, they have  no problems with the
|> delivery system inside the Jaffna peninsula.
|> 
|> ===
|,.....................................
|> Vicky:
|> UMass, Jan 28

In this case we definitely agree with Vicky about the fact that
it is worse than  during World War II, 

BECAUSE During World War II:

    None of the Jaffna residents were hanged to death - on lamp-posts
        - in public nor privately 

    No Jaffna Mother was forced  to give up her teenage 
	son to armed gangs or armies
         nor pay taxes to send him to live with sinhalese, 
		tamils and muslims in South 

    No Jaffna person had to pay Kappam or money to move in and out of Jaffna

    No high ( or low) - caste tamil was forced to leave or killed 
	because of his caste

    No Tamil writer in Jaffna (not even male, not to mention female) 
	was forcibly held without 
       trial by any one

    AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, the mail was delivered.

How unfortunate it is, that Sivarasa, who was hung on a lamp-post
  could not read the letter from his mother while dying.....
 
   and how unfortunate, that Rani could not get the letter from Victor in U.S.,
       while her son is forced to carry cyanide somewhere in Jaffna

    and how unfortunate, that Vasanthan was not granted his final wish of 
	communicating
        with his mother next door - before he was axed to death 

   and how unfortunate is it that many thousands of tamils, 
	including Amirthalingam, ....
       were prevented permanently from sending any letter 

So please get together, and let us deliver the mail



P.S.  Remember the days when the night train was called the mail train, because
      it carried the mail..

       and then we bombed it , and mined the track and killed the drivers 
        so no one dare bring us mail in  a train......


|> .....  they have  no problems with the
|> delivery system inside the Jaffna peninsula.
|> 
|> ===
|,.....................................
|> Vicky:
|> UMass, Jan 28

Of course they don't have problems with delivery system
Because
Prabhakaran is the only eligible Tamil male to deliver next generation
of Pure Tamils.

MF Vicky
Now you can cry 
If you are a male
Since you are not eligible to deliver 

-Thambi




Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: priyan@faraday.ece.cmu.edu (Priyan Gunatilake)
Subject: Re:Upul Moligoda
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:57:13 GMT

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To: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: RE: Upul Moligoda


	Upul Moligoda is a cousin of mine.  He lives now in Colombo, Sri
Lanka.  I think he is managing a computer maintenance company.  I will
certainly pass on your name to him(I do not have your address.  You can
mail it to me at priyan@faraday.ece.cmu.edu).

			cheers
			   --priyan
From: kurtovic@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu (Zoran Kurtovic)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: Re: NPR: Bosnia Faces Aggression now from Croats
Date: 22 Jan 1993 03:09:35 GMT
Organization: Dept of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.cchem.berkeley.edu

In article <C18BoG.LLM@me.utoronto.ca> arnsenad@me.utoronto.ca (Senad Arnautovic) writes:
>kurtovic@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu (Zoran Kurtovic) writes:
>
>>To get back to the thread of the discussion, it is necessary to understand
>>the different usages of the word Muslim when referring to the conflict in
>>Bosnia.  To the average American, the word Muslim means religious group.
>>The term Muslim with respect to Bosnia means ethnic group.  The Muslims
>>of Bosnia aren't very strict religiously.  The Bosnian government was to
>>have representation from all of the ethnic groups.  The reason it is 
>>Muslim dominated is that the other ethnic groups organized themselves
>>outside of the Bosnian government.
>
>Well, what about Mr. Mile Akmadzic, a Bosnian Catholic being B-H prime minister?
>


I did not mean to say that all members of the other ethnic groups organized
outside of the government.  I only meant to explain that many of the Croats
as well as Serbs had formed such organizations.  Personally, I think it is
tragic that the Bosnian government was abandoned by many of the Croats in
Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Some of their leaders are more interested in
keeping power than in a long term strategy.  But the position of the Croats
was difficult since they saw that the government of Bosnia was being 
abandoned by the west.  I think that this is why the support for Boban's
policies grew stronger in Herzegovina.  It seems that the Croats are
hedging their bets so that they can keep a chunk of land in the event that
the Bosnian government falls.

I hope that people will come to their senses and realize that more is lost
than gained if the fighting between Croats and Muslims continues.  It is
ironic that the latest round of clashes is over disputes which have been
exacerbated by the publishing of the proposed cantonal map. 


>>So the war in Bosnia is a political war with the ethnic groups separating
>>along different political lines.  (The different political sides being
>>those fighting for a unitary state, those fighting for a plural state, and
>>those fighting for separate states.)
>
>I would not divide along the ethnic groups. It is a war between forces
>that want to preserve Bosnia as a state and those who want it cease to exist.


Again, you are correct that there are no clear cut divisions between the
ethnic groups and what sides they are fighting on.  I only meant to say
there is some correlation between ethnic group and what side they are 
fighting on.


>
>  [REST DELETED]
>
>Senad


Zoran
From: is4@doc.ic.ac.uk (I Stekl)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: Radio Sarajevo frq.
Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:14:59 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak6.doc.ic.ac.uk


	Some information abouth radio Sarajevo.

	Broadcasting on 1116KHz MW and 6220KHz as far as I know all day. 
	You can get informatio directly from BiH.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
From: arnsenad@me.utoronto.ca (Senad Arnautovic)
Subject: Re: NPR: Bosnia Faces Aggression now from Croats
Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:21:52 GMT

kurtovic@gold.cchem.berkeley.edu (Zoran Kurtovic) writes:

>To get back to the thread of the discussion, it is necessary to understand
>the different usages of the word Muslim when referring to the conflict in
>Bosnia.  To the average American, the word Muslim means religious group.
>The term Muslim with respect to Bosnia means ethnic group.  The Muslims
>of Bosnia aren't very strict religiously.  The Bosnian government was to
>have representation from all of the ethnic groups.  The reason it is 
>Muslim dominated is that the other ethnic groups organized themselves
>outside of the Bosnian government.

Well, what about Mr. Mile Akmadzic, a Bosnian Catholic being B-H prime minister?

>So the war in Bosnia is a political war with the ethnic groups separating
>along different political lines.  (The different political sides being
>those fighting for a unitary state, those fighting for a plural state, and
>those fighting for separate states.)

I would not divide along the ethnic groups. It is a war between forces
that want to preserve Bosnia as a state and those who want it cease to exist.
Those who fight for Bosnia include majority of Muslims, moderate Serbs
and Croats, Jews etc. Those who would eliminate Bosnia include
nationalistic Serbs (Chetniks) who would join Bosnia to Greater Serbia,
and nationalistic Croats (Ustashas) who would imbed Bosnia into Greater Croatia.
Those who fight for Bosnia should be called the Bosnians.
Since they are the majority in B-H, those who fight against B-H cannot
gain victory without help from their sponsors Serbia and Croatia.
However, this does not imply that I equate the behaviour of Serbia
and Croatia towards B-H.

>  Calling it an ethnic conflict is, in
>my opinion, an abbreviation used by Western media to present the conflict
>in a certain way.  I think that Muslims are being `ethnically cleansed'
>not because they are Muslim, but because they would resist a vote to remove
>parts of Bosnia and join them with Serbia.  The fact that they are Muslim
>makes them easily identifiable, and the history and religion is brought 
>up to encourage the Serbian soldiers to do the work.  So it is, in my
>opinion, a misnomer to call the war a religious war.

I agree with you.

>Zoran

Senad
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:08:46 CST
From: <U52148@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: Re: islamic info in bosnian language
 <93022.183613U52148@uicvm.uic.edu> <C1Do00.GFH@sun3.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca>

In article <C1Do00.GFH@sun3.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca>, adzinic@sun14.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca
(Adnan Dzinic) says:

                                                                               u

>>
>
>That is your problem if you are ignorant,but please learn something about
>history and after that write or talk about isue. Is thet Quran writen in
>Kajkavstina ?
>
Adnan, what kind of history did you have in mind? Hercegovina was an
independent state too, under our hero Stjepan Vukcic Herceg. Does that
mean Hercegovina should be independent? Depends. All I hear is Bosnian
"nationality", "language". ARE you alleging that the HERCEGOVIANS are in fact
"Ethnically" Bosnian?
If the state were named Republika Bosna, you might have a case. BUT IT'S
NOT!!! IT'S CALLED REPUBLIKA BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA!!!!! Therefore you are
obliged to respect the rights of the "ethnic" Hercegovian people...
or we might get some funny ideas about independence...
By the way my Kuran was published in Zagreb...

-Cro
From: sharon@world.std.com (Sharon M Gartenberg)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
Subject: Re: The Economist on the proposed Bosnian ``peace plan''
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:45:13 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

This is appropriate and reasonable conduct while ``peace talks'' are going on?
Not even aiming for particular strategic, military targets, but
indiscriminately blasting away at civilians?
        
>         Serb artillery fire hit randomly around the Muslim Slav-
> dominated capital Sarajevo. The heaviest shelling was directed against
> the sprawling residential neighborhood of Dobrinja on the western edge
> of the city, officials said.
>         At least four people were killed and several injured when a shell
> exploded as they waited to enter the Sarajevo headquarters of the U.N.
> Protection Force (UNPROFOR), located across from Dobrinja.
>         The city's two main hospitals reported treating at least 51 people
> for wounds. Doctors said a number of those injured were children.
>         Sarajevo radio warned the city's estimated 380,000 residents and
> refugees to remain in underground shelters.
 

-- 
Sharon Machlis Gartenberg
Framingham, MA  USA
e-mail: sharon@world.std.com