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  Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
 


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SLA demands people in Jaffna to remove their fences

The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) is forcing people living on the main roads in Jaffna to reduce the height of the fences surrounding their homes by half for security purposes. The SLA is enforcing this regulation so they can watch over all activity from their security posts on the road. SLA has said they are doing it due to recent attacks on SLA personnel.

The people of Jaffna are becoming fearful as these orders by the SLA are bringing back painful memories of the time when the Indian Army was occupying Jaffna. It should be noted that this kind of fence reduction activity occurred while the Indian Army was deployed in Jaffna peninsula in 1987.

People have began cutting thatch fences, but are expressing anxiety about how they will cut down the cement fences. The SLA is ordering people to cut fences on Jaffna-Palaly Road, Jaffna-Point Pedro Road and Jaffna-K. K. S. Road, which are the main roads of Jaffna.

11 December 2005

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