May , 2009
The Guns are Silent
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The first call I made when I saw the pictures on TV was to Neelan Thiruchelvam's son. Neelan was our sounding board whenever we landed in Colombo - soft-spoken, camera-shy, this Tamilian in the Sri Lankan capital always had a way of making himself heard. When he came up with a plan for devolution for Tamil-majority areas, he was mocked by many Sinhalas, and sent a death warrant by Prabhakaran. On July 29, 1999, Neelan, peace petitioner and human rights activist was killed in the most horrific way - as his car stopped at a traffic light on his way to work- a suicide bomber came up to his window and exploded. What many who confuse the LTTE with 'Sri Lankan Tamils' seem to consistently forget is that Prabhakaran killed more Tamils than Sri Lankan forces and the IPKF are accused of doing. Not to mention....
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Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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