Jaliya Wickramasuriya: from tea taster to ambassador: Larry Luxner visited Sri Lanka, where he met the country's leading tea exporters. It all began with a visit to Colombo's ambassador in Washington.(Sri Lanka)(Viewpoint essay)

Tea & Coffee Trade Journal | April 1, 2009| | Copyright

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On a breezy Saturday afternoon in late January, 150 or so Tamil supporters lined up along Washington's Connecticut Avenue, waving homemade signs and urging passing motorists to honk their horns to protest Sri Lanka's latest military offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels, who have been fighting for a separate homeland in the north for 25 years.

"Two, four, six, eight, Sri Lanka is a racist state!" chanted a college student with a megaphone. Others held up placards reading "Genocide should not be a celebration" and "Stop censorship: Let ...

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