Pyat wanders - another day in photos
Mar. 16th, 2009 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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commanderteddog and I went wandering. She works a couple of blocks from my office, so such peregrinations are often convenient. When we met, there was some kind of event brewing along Yonge Street. This turned out to be a Tamil Tiger protest against the Sri Lankan government.
I know practically nothing about this conflict, other than it's the sort of long-term and deeply entrenched argument that sends most people fleeing for the comparatively simple moral conumdrums of the occupation of Palestine. The Wiki entry seems to paint the Tigers in a pretty dire light. The protest was well-organized, though. The line of people extended more than a kilometer along the street, yet blocked no traffic or storefronts. I wish I'd brought the good camera, instead of just my cell phone, as I could've gotten some impressive photos.
We ducked into the Dundas Square, where I bought a keydrive and some food, then jogged over to the Ryerson Campus where we ate at the same picnic table on which I used to eat take-out fries and study Microeconomics in 1994.
On the way back, we wondered about the upside down ziggurat building near Ryerson.
And noted that the Toronto Police Mounted Units were hiding out in a side street off Yonge, no doubt waiting for the demonstration to turn ugly.
commanderteddog and I went wandering. She works a couple of blocks from my office, so such peregrinations are often convenient. When we met, there was some kind of event brewing along Yonge Street. This turned out to be a Tamil Tiger protest against the Sri Lankan government.I know practically nothing about this conflict, other than it's the sort of long-term and deeply entrenched argument that sends most people fleeing for the comparatively simple moral conumdrums of the occupation of Palestine. The Wiki entry seems to paint the Tigers in a pretty dire light. The protest was well-organized, though. The line of people extended more than a kilometer along the street, yet blocked no traffic or storefronts. I wish I'd brought the good camera, instead of just my cell phone, as I could've gotten some impressive photos.
We ducked into the Dundas Square, where I bought a keydrive and some food, then jogged over to the Ryerson Campus where we ate at the same picnic table on which I used to eat take-out fries and study Microeconomics in 1994.
On the way back, we wondered about the upside down ziggurat building near Ryerson.
And noted that the Toronto Police Mounted Units were hiding out in a side street off Yonge, no doubt waiting for the demonstration to turn ugly.
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Date: 2009-03-17 01:35 am (UTC)What I will say is this: in Sri Lanka there has been a 25 year long civil war that is based on a series of invasions and ethnic conflicts that started 1000 years ago, fanned up and down, were used and exploited by the British, and now have turned into a series of blood feuds and vendettas in which no one can hope to have clean hands.
If one is reminded of the way American and Canadian Irish supported the IRA for centuries, it probably isn't an accident.
So how are the Tigers protesting? They aren't, really, as far as I know. Tamils who don't think they're terrorists are protesting -- just like the Irish in Boston and New York used to do.