The victor's tutelage

by admin
Aug 28, 2012

After three years of rehabilitation and reconciliation through the state discliplined media and having the military on your doorstep, Sri Lanka recently took to doing a spot-check, looking for the tell-tale signs of those who just refuse to learn the 'truth'.

Tamil students in the North sitting a GCE Advanced Level preparatory examination paper were asked to identify "who among the following is inappropriate to the word terrorism: 1. Bin Laden, 2. Pirapaharan, 3. Saddam Hussein, 4. Colonel Gaddafi, 5. Mao Zedong," reported TamilNet.

The 'correct' answer being Gaddafi and Mao Zedong.

The examination paper, set by the Ministry of Education, was sat by students from schools across the North.

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