Are we not giving legitimacy to the EELAM and strengthening the hands of anti Sri Lankan international lobby by using the word Diaspora indiscriminately to designate Sri Lankan Tamils living abroad?
Monday, February 20th, 2012Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens movement Mahanuwara 20.2.2012. The word Diaspora is usually used to describe Jews who are supposed to have been exiled in mass scale from Egyptin the 6th and 7th centuries BC. The term Diaspora in Greek means “dispersion or scattering”. This Biblical legend refers to the dispersion of Jews among […]
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