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Sri Lankan socialist speaks on Tsunami

category international | miscellaneous | news report author Sunday March 13, 2005 13:43author by internationalist

Sri Lankan socialist visits Ireland

Upul Siriwardana, a member of the United Socialist Party (USP) which is the Socialist Party's sister party in Sri Lanka, visited Ireland as part of a speaking tour of Europe with the Committee for a Workers' International. He spoke to The Socialist.

How were members and supporters of the United Socialist Party affected by the Tsunami disaster?
80 of our sympathisers were killed. Six candidates who stood with us in the last elections were killed. The homes of 27 comrades were destroyed. 50 members of a trade union that is affiliated to the USP were killed and the houses of 50 other members were washed away.

The rest of this interview is linked.

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