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| | Sri Lanka Presidential Elections, US State Department & Reason |
 | | The State Department would have its audience believe that in the Jaffna peninsula with the visible presence of around 40,000 Sri Lankan troops, (one for every ten resident Tamil), the Tamils were somehow 'intimidated' by the LTTE to refrain from voting, so much that only 1% of the registered voters exercised their franchise. |
 | | It denied reason some twenty years ago, when in the aftermath of the 1983 genocidal onslaught on the Tamil people, the State Department described Sri Lanka as 'open, working, multiparty democracy' where the 'Constitution guarantees the independence of the judiciary, and lawyers and judges are held in high esteem'. |
 | | Department spokesperson Adam Ereli said, “As a result, a significant portion of Sri Lanka's people were deprived of the opportunity to make their views known. |
| www.tamilnation.org /intframe/us/051122usstate.htm (1378 words) |
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