Thursday, July 08, 2010

How Do You Say "Chutzpah" to a Moon?

Israel, I've heard, got bashed by UN head Ban-Ki-something or other (they're always banning Israel) for revealing quite illegal and terror activity by Hebollah. You know, like storing ammo dumps, etc. amongst civilians.

But what happens when a country that killed recently 20,000 (yes, twenty-thousand) civilians by-the-by gets angry at the UN?

Here:

A Sri Lankan cabinet minister started a hunger strike Thursday in front of the U.N. office after the world body refused to halt its investigation into alleged human rights abuses during the country's civil war.

Buddhist monks chanted blessings and some 100 national flag-waving supporters cheered as Housing Minister Wimal Weerawansa got on a stage and proclaimed he decided to fast to stop what opponents believe would be an unfair prosecution of Sri Lankan armed forces and political leaders for war crimes.

Human rights groups have accused government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels of deliberately targeting civilians last year as fighting drew a close in the 25-year war.


How do you say 'chutpah' in Sinhala or Tamil that they speak in Sri Lanka?

In fact, how do you say 'chutzpah' in Korean?


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I looked:

Korean-English translation for "chutzpah"

Sorry, no direct translations found.

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