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Remembrance should not equate to celebrating terrorism - Opinion | Daily Mirror

Daily Mirror LK · · 1276 words · By DM Editorial
State Security vs. Human Rights Economic reform and missed opportunities Post-war reconciliation Critique of the Rajapaksa administration
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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence
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Appeal to Fear 80% confidence
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10 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Seventeen years ago, on May 19th, a protracted civil war in Sri Lanka came to its bloody conclusion.”
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Wikipedia and The Guardian both explicitly state that the Sri Lankan civil war ended on May 19, 2009.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war was the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka intended to perform a peacekeeping role. The deployment followed the Indo-Sri Lank…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_intervention_in_the_Sri…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sri Lanka Armed Forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) have been accused of committing war crimes during the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. The war crime…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_during_the_final_st…
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“On May 19th, the Sri Lankan military... completely militarily annihilated the LTTE”
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Wikipedia (Eelam War IV) and other sources confirm the Sri Lankan military concluded its operation against the LTTE on May 19, 2009.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war was the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka intended to perform a peacekeeping role. The deployment followed the Indo-Sri Lank…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_intervention_in_the_Sri…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of commanders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers, a separatist militant Tamil nationalist organisation, which operated in northern a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commanders_of_the_LTTE
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war
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“the LTTE... deployed the world’s largest contingent of suicide bombers at the time”
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Multiple sources (Wikipedia, Britannica, Mackenzie Institute) describe the LTTE as pioneering suicide bombing and having a sophisticated unit (Black Tigers) dedicated to it, supporting the claim of a massive contingent.
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web search NEUTRAL — The LTTE perfected suicide bombing as a tactic.The LTTE was founded on 5 May 1976 as the successor to the Tamil New Tigers. Uma Maheswaran became its leader, and Prabhakaran its military commander.[39…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eel…
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web search NEUTRAL — The LTTE grew to become one of the world’s most sophisticated and tightly organized insurgent groups. During the 1970s the organization carried out a number of guerrilla attacks.An elite unit of the L…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Liberation-Tigers-of-Tamil-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The group is known for pioneering the suicide bomb jacket, as well as the use of women in their attacks. The vast majority of the LTTE’s attacks have been carried out with the use of explosives and su…
https://mackenzieinstitute.com/2016/01/liberation-tigers-of-…
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“the LTTE... conscripted children to replenish its depleting ranks.”
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Multiple independent sources, including The Himalayan Times and other reports, confirm the LTTE conscripted children into its ranks.
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web search NEUTRAL — Uma Maheswaran became its leader, and Prabhakaran its military commander.[39] A five-member committee was also appointed. It has been stated that Prabhakaran sought to "refashion the old TNT/new LTTE …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eel…
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web search NEUTRAL — The LTTE had conscripted children into its ranks, abducted adults and harassed locals. Last year, for instance, the SLMM recorded 1,490 child recruitment violations perpetrated by the Tigers and 393 c…
https://thehimalayantimes.com/opinion/ceasefire-with-tigers-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The LTTE conscripted children and also deployed women, regardless of consequences.Those who continuously find fault with the military, and the police, never condemn the LTTE, or other Tamil groups, fo…
https://slguardian.org/paulrajs-gamble-rewriting-sri-lankas-…
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“Numbers vary from conservative figures of 11,172 by the Sri Lankan government report in 2014, to 30, 000 by the Darusman report”
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The evidence shows a conflict in numbers: the Darusman report is cited as estimating up to 40,000 deaths, while the Paranagama Commission explicitly rejects these findings. The specific figures mentioned in the claim (11,172 vs 30,000) are not explicitly detailed in the provided snippets, but the sources confirm a strong dispute over the death toll estimates between government and UN-led reports.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Marzuki Darusman (born 26 January 1945) is an Indonesian lawyer and human rights campaigner who served as the Attorney General of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzuki_Darusman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Terrorism in Sri Lanka has been a highly destructive phenomenon during the 20th and 21st centuries, especially so during the periods of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009) and the first (1971) and se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Sri_Lanka
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“the JVP... waged a nihilistic insurgency which cost 60,000 lives”
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Refworld explicitly states that the JVP insurgency killed 60,000 people, and Wikipedia confirms the existence and nature of the JVP insurrections.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_JVP_insurrection
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 1987–1989 JVP insurrection, also known as the 1988–1989 revolt or the JVP troubles, was an armed revolt in Sri Lanka led by the Marxist–Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against the Governm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987–1989_JVP_insurrection
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — JVP may stand for: Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, People's Liberation Front, a Sri Lankan communist political party Jerusalem Venture Partners, an Israeli-American media venture capital firm Jewish Voice…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JVP
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“provincial council elections, originally introduced as a solution to the Tamil demand for devolution of power.”
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Inter Press Service and other sources confirm that provincial councils were a result of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan accord to provide devolution of power to address Tamil aspirations.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Eastern Province (Sinhala: නැගෙනහිර පළාත Næ̆gĕnahira Paḷāta, Tamil: கிழக்கு மாகாணம் Kiḻakku Mākāṇam) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, the first level administrative division of the count…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Province,_Sri_Lanka
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sri Lankan Tamils (Tamil: இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar or ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka. Tod…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamils
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sri Lankan civil war was fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war
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“A total of 6,261 military personnel died in the fourth Eelam war, and 29,551 were wounded.”
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The search results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant (discussing NBA player Naz Reid) and contain no information about military casualties in the fourth Eelam war.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 24, 2024 · [Charania] Minnesota Timberwolves C/F Naz Reid has won the 2023-24 NBA Sixth Man of the Year award.
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web search NEUTRAL — Because of the scale of this phenomenom has reached, possibly being one of the drivers of Naz Reid's popularity and being a common occurence in r/nba and beyond I believe this is something worth chron…
https://www.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1d8w2cw/a_col…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 10, 2023 · That said, I've noticed in some posts and news related to the team on social media, people simply commenting "Naz Reid." and many others responding the same thing. I assumed it was simp…
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“28,708 military personnel died between 1983 and 2009.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to verify the specific number of military deaths between 1983 and 2009.
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“Mahinda Rajapaksa... chose to remove term limits on the presidency”
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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding Mahinda Rajapaksa removing term limits.
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