The Tamil Tigers Irish Warlord ; After Four Decades of Conflict the Tamils Were Finally Driven Out of Sri Lanka This Week but Would There Have Been Such Bloodshed Were It Not for a Rapacious Galwayman and His Own Reign of Terror? [Eire Region]

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AS THE train chugged its way into the highlands of British Ceylon, Sir William Gregory regarded the oliveskinned Tamils dressed in their colourful robes, crawling along the hillsides, their nimble hands diving into the lush green bushes, plucking at the tea leaves.

The Irishman stroked his bristling mutton-chops and gleefully pondered the fortune he was making from all these plantations.

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The Tamil Tigers Irish Warlord ; After Four Decades of Conflict the Tamils Were Finally Driven Out of Sri Lanka This Week but Would There Have Been Such Bloodshed Were It Not for a Rapacious Galwayman and His Own Reign of Terror? [Eire Region]

The Governor allowed a wave of self-congratulation to ripple down to his boots. As the train steamed into the distance, a tea-picker collapsed and died. When the boss saw the dead Tamil's corpse, he summoned two men and said: 'Put him with the others.'

In the month that the militant Tamil Tigers appear to have been finally silenced, there has been much talk of the brutal ethnic Sri Lankan conflict that has divided the Tamil minority from the Sin...

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