_February, 12th 2018 (calendar year twenty-eighteen):  On Abraham Lincoln's Birthday~February 12th, 2018 (2018) IN CALENDAR YEAR TWENTY-EIGHTEEN (2018):     https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article199615849.html     "Mainstream" USA Media Outlets _LIKE_ _The Kansas City Star_ _CONTINUE_Openly ASSISTING Government Of Ceylon-$ri Lanka-$outh A$ia _ASCEND_ The Structures Of GENOCIDE:     http://www.bbc.com/tamil/sri-lanka-43045147      PERPETRATED ON EELAM TAMILS IN CEYLON-$RI LANKA-$OUTH A$IA:         https://www.amazon.com/Sri-Lankas-Secrets-Rajapaksa-Investigating/dp/1922235539     By Labeling/Labelling GENERATIONS Of Ceylon-Sri Lanka Government-Perpetrated _GENOCIDE_ On Eelam Tamils In Ceylon-$ri Lanka-$outh A$ia "merely" "civil war":     https://www.amazon.com/War-Crimes-against-Humanity-Lanka/dp/0957502370/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517494749&sr=1-1&keywords=war+crimes+and+crimes+against+humanity          .~February, 12th 2018 (calendar year twenty-eighteen)_
As "recently" as on February 12th, 2018 (February 12th IS February 13th in some parts of the world) 2018 (in calendar year twenty-eighteen):     https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article199615849.html     "mainstream" "respectable" "respected" USA news organizations~ _LIKE_ _The Kansas City Star_~"far" from being "the" proverbial  "lonely voice"~continues "international" _COMPLICITY_ in Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia's _GENERATIONS_ of naked genocide~perpetrated on dark-skinned ethnic minority Eelam Tamil "citizens" of Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia BY UTTERLY FAILING TO "LABEL" Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia's Government-Perpetrated GENOCIDE-PERPETRATED ON EELAM TAMILS IN CEYLON-SRI LANKA, SOUTH ASIA _GENOCIDE_:     https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/05/27/sri-lanka-un-rights-council-fails-victims     employing the term "civil war" "instead"~_AND_~Oops!~Eelam Tamil "citizens" of Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia "enjoy" precisely zero "civil rights"~Oops!+Oprah!~Oops+Obama!:     http://www.bbc.com/tamil/sri-lanka-43045147     ~and CONTINUE IN CALENDAR YEAR TWENTY-EIGHTEEN _FACING_ GENOCIDES being perpetrated _IN_ calendar year twenty-eighteen _NOT_ "merely"_GENOCIDE_ Perpetrated from 1939 (nineteen thirty-nine ALONE) to 1945 (nineteen forty-five ALONE) upon their entire communities by their "own" "elected" Governments)~yes!~"that" U$A Obama Admin$tration-PUBLICLY-endor$ed-IF NOT "publicly"+"internationally"-"celebrated" (?):     http://www.asiantribune.com/node/64753     _GENOCIDE_:     https://www.amazon.com/Sri-Lankas-Secrets-Rajapaksa-Investigating/dp/1922235539     ~perpetrated _EITHER_ "by" _LITERALLY_~alas!+alack!~NO ?metaphor!"~ of Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia's nakedly genocidal upon Eelam Tamil minority citizens of Ceylon-Sri Lanka since calendar year 1939 (nineteen-thirty-nine):     1939     [nineteen thirty-nine]:     http://www.amazon.com/Heuchelheim-1939-1949-vergessen-Zeitzeugen-Nachkriegsjahre/dp/3926923148/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366288028&sr=1-1&keywords=Damit+wir+nicht+vergessen     .   TRAGIC:  "Mainstream" "respectable" "respected" USA news organizations~~ _LIKE_ _The Kansas City Star_ REMAIN_ obdurately _AND_ tragically NON-reflective of USA citizens/residents/ opposition to "all things GENOCIDE~whether GENOCIDE:     https://www.channel4.com/news/wikileaks-sri-lanka-leadership-responsible-for-crimes     perpetrated on Eelam Tamil "citizens" of Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia _OR_ against Burmnma0Myanmar's Government-Perpetrated GENOCIDE on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, Burma-Myanmar, South Asa (Oops! the "neglected" Burma-Myanmar's Buddhist populations in Burma-Myanmar, South Asia's Rakhine State's "complaints" to The BBC news service of "neglect" "by" The Government Of Nobel Peace-prize-winning Aung San Syu Kyu cannot "begin" to "compare" in agony with naked acts of brutal genocide BEING PERPETRATED IN CALENDAR YEAR TWENTY-EIGHTEEN By The Government Of Burma-Myanmar, South Asia _ON_ Burma-Myanmar. South Asia's Rohingya Muslims.          http://theconversation.com/the-history-of-the-persecution-of-myanmars-rohingya-84040     .  Paraphrasing EMINENTLY AMERICAN-AUTHOR MARK TWAIN~the pseudonym employed by Eminently American-English-author Samuel Langhorne Clemens:

	Mark Twain (1835–1910)
QUOTATION:	The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
ATTRIBUTION:	MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens).—George Bainton, The Art of Authorship, pp. 87–88 (1890).

Mark Twain:     http://www.bartleby.com/73/540.html          "The difference between the almost right     word     ["..[Ceylon] Sri Lanka's civil war" the ALMOST RIGHT WORD employed by The Kansas City Star on Abraham Lincoln's birthday February 12th, 2018 (calendar year twenty-eighteen)...] _CONTINUES_ describing _LITERALLY_ _GENERATIONS_ upon _GENERATIONS_ of Government of Ceylon-Sri Lanka/Rajapakse-Perpetrated _GENOCIDE_ on Ceylon-Sri Lanka, SouthAsia's Eelam Tamils with ZERO :civic rights""as" MERE "civil war" GENOCIDE:     http://www.bbc.com/news/world-11108059     GENOCIDE:     http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf     ] and the right     word    ["The [Government of Ceylon-Sri Lanka. South Asia's] _GENOCIDE_     http://www.bbc.com/news/world-11108059     _BEING_ Perpetrated In Calendar Year 2018 (twenty-eighteen) AS IN The Government of Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia's _GENOCIDE_ BEING PERPETRATED AT THE "COMMAND" OF CEYLON-SRI LANKA'S RAJAPAKSA+NAKEDLY GENOCIDAL NEO-NAZI CRONIES~upon members of dark-skinned ethnic minority communities located in Ceylon-Sri Lanka:     https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/11/04/sri_lankas_hidden_genocide.html     _AND_ _GENOCIDE_ being perpetrated IN TWENTY-EIGHTEEN  _AND_ upon Burma-Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing Burma-Myanmar-Perpetrated _GENOCIDE_ in calendar year 2017 (twenty-seventeen):     http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/refugee-agency-alarmed-attack-rohingya-refugees-50132236     [EDITOR'S NOTE:  The preceding link was "magically" "mystically" "altered" and NOT by "us"~INDEED AS SO _MANY_ PARAGRAPHS PUBLISHED ON OUR INTERNET SITE HAVE BEEN "magically" "mystically" "altered"~and NOT by "us"~since calendar year 2009 (two thousand+nine) when _The New York-Times_-worshipped Obama Administration (+yes! "we" "noticed" "the worshipping"/"worshiping" even if others did not!) first "took office"~NOT "altered" "by" "us" the ORIGINAL+AUTHENTIC+author's of this internet site~but "rather" by (?) USA (?)-based/surveillance drone-controlled (?) NOTE:  CBS's _60 Minutes_ Sunday television news magazine's intrepid integrity-filled+respected journalist Lesley Stahl knows far more about "all this sort of thing" than "we" could even dream of "knowing"~"international" "relentless" "internet trolls."  "We" noticed for the Very First Time On November 2nd, 2017 (twenty-seventeen) BUT the link:          http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/refugee-agency-alarmed-attack-rohingya-refugees-50132236     _COULD_ have been altered at ANY TIME "alas" "we" FAILED TO NOTICE (!) "until" "we" noticed For The Very First Time ON November 2nd, 2017 (twenty-seventeen).  Burma-Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims located in Burma-Myanmar-South Asia _AND_ Ceylon-Sri Lanka's dark-skinned ethnic minority Eelam Tamils located in Ceylon-Sri Lank-South Asia~_BOTH_ countries SPARKLINGLY-PRISTINELY-WHITE-ROBED-WHILE "still" "devoutly" "practising"+"nationalistic" neo-Nazi-NAKEDLY+-GENOCIDALLY-FASCI$T-Buddhists~"worshipped"  STILL (?) IN calendar year 2018 (twenty-eighteen) "by" (?) such Hollywood Icon Richard Gere (?) among "other" "eminent" "shining lights" (?)  Richard Gere HIMSELF "a Buddhist" (?)  Rohingya Muslims are located in Burma-Myanmar-South Asia _AND_ Ceylon-Sri Lanka's dark-skinned ethnic minority Eelam Tamils are located in Ceylon-Sri Lank-South Asia _AND_ _FACING_ GENOCIDES being perpetrated _IN_ calendar year twenty-eighteen _NOT_ "merely" _GENOCIDE_ Perpetrated from 1939 (nineteen thirty-nine ALONE) to 1945 (nineteen forty-five ALONE) upon their entire communities by their "own" "elected" Governments)~yes!~"that" U$A Obama Admin$tration-endor$ed-IF NOT "publicly"+"internationally"-"celebrated" (?):     http://www.asiantribune.com/node/64753     _GENOCIDE_:     https://www.amazon.com/Sri-Lankas-Secrets-Rajapaksa-Investigating/dp/1922235539     ~perpetrated _EITHER_ "by" generations of Ceylon-Sri Lanka's nakedly genocidal upon Eelam Tamil minority citizens of Ceylon-Sri Lanka since calendar year 1939 (nineteen-thirty-nine):        1939     [nineteen thirty-nine]:     http://www.amazon.com/Heuchelheim-1939-1949-vergessen-Zeitzeugen-Nachkriegsjahre/dp/3926923148/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366288028&sr=1-1&keywords=Damit+wir+nicht+vergessen     .  'Tis really a large matter.     Tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."  IN ADDITION:     http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=38857     Ceylon-Sri Lanka GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES since 1939 (SINCE calendar year nineteen thirty-nine) _STILL_ _STAT!_ _OBDURATELY_ REFUSING_ to ARREST Perpetrators of GENOCIDE~Perpetrated ON dark-skinned ethnic minority Eelam Tamils in Ceylon-Sri Lanka-South Asia:     http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=38927     ~Eelam Tamils of Ceylon-Sri Lanka~akin "as" dark-skinned ethnic minority in the country of their BIRTH~akin in that sense to The U$A'$ Oprah Winfrey+akin to Former First Couple U$A-The Obama$~and Eminently NOT akin to "Rachel Dolezal":     https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/13/rachel-dolezal-i-wasnt-identifying-as-black-to-upset-people-i-was-being-me     .  "Naturally"~as "recently" as on February 1st, 2018 (February 1st IS February 2nd in some parts of the world) 2018 (in calendar year twenty-eighteen)~the Eminently Illustrious United Nations _LITERALLY_ _CREATED_ to assure Jewish Survivors Of Hitler's World War II Holocaust Perpetrated Against Jews And Against "Others" would _NEVER_  _AGAIN_ "happen"~has no _IDENTICAL_ "description" "for" LITERALLY _GENERATIONS_ of Ceylon-Sri Lanka Government Perpetration of Genocide against Eelam Tamil "citizens" of Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia~except Oops!+Oprah+Former USA President Obama "citizens" of Ceylon-Sri Lanka, South Asia with precisely _ZERO_ "civic rights" to even PHYSICALLY _EXIST_:     https://www.amazon.com/War-Crimes-against-Humanity-Lanka/dp/0957502370/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517494749&sr=1-1&keywords=war+crimes+and+crimes+against+humanity     .
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