Sri Lanka demands retraction of UK Guardian Travel quiz with reference to ‘Eelam’

The High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in the United Kingdom has written to the Editor of the Guardian newspaper after the web edition of the UK’s Guardian newspaper posted a quiz mentioning ‘Eelam’ as an indigenous name for Sri Lanka, linking it with the Tamil Tigers terrorist group (LTTE), Sri Lanka’s Foreign Relations Ministry said in a statement.

The Foreign Relations Ministry, on Saturday, said its attention was drawn to a quiz titled “Travel quiz: Do you know your islands, Man Friday?” published on the web edition of The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom on Friday (15 May). The second question read: “Eelam is an indigenous name for which popular holiday island?”

Among the answers to this question, Sri Lanka had been listed as one of the choices, and when one selected Sri Lanka as the answer, whilst indicating it as the correct answer, a further description reading “The full name of the island’s recent military insurgency was LTTE – Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam” appeared.

The High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in the United Kingdom wrote to the Editor of the Guardian newspaper on the inaccuracy of this information, requesting that the content be removed.he Guardian has now removed the quiz from its website.