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Declassified UK: Revealed: British mercenaries linked to brutal crackdown on left-wing activists in Sri Lanka

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A British mercenary kept working at Sri Lanka’s military headquarters in the late 1980s during a bloody crackdown on left-wing activists from the country’s Sinhalese majority, new evidence obtained by Declassified UK reveals.

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Awoo [she/her]
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4 years ago

Crackdown on leftists from 1988-89 used the ‘Jakarta Method’ of exterminating Marxist sympathisers, killing around 60,000 people

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Republican_stomper [they/them]
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the tamils were left wing? sounds like republikkkan propaganda

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