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From Good-Governance to Dog-Governance
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE
This is a selection from the ‘News Next Desk’ of Kekirilanthaya, Sri Lanka’s friendly neighbor, whose concern for the well-being of Sri Lankans knows no bounds.
Who was caught with elephant-tail hair?
It has been reported that a …
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Economy in the doldrums
The economy is heading to a crisis, says politburo member of Mahajana Eksath Perumuna (MEP), Yadamini Gunawardena. Global economy, he points out, is yet again in a crisis, which Sri Lanka seems not to have taken into account yet. The …
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Should Sri Lanka’s Parliament control only Buddhist monks?
Some facts to think about the controversial Theravadi Bhikku Kathikawath Bill
Some facts to think about
- Buddhism is the predominant religion in Sri Lanka. Yet there are other global religions with very powerful institutional backing like Christianity/Catholicism and Islam
- How
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Minister Swaminathan offers Release of LTTE Tamil Terrorists
Minister of Resettlement, Reconstruction and Hindu Religious Affairs, D.M. Swaminathan, a Tamil and a sympathizer of LTTE has offered very flexible terms in order to get released the LTTE Tamil terrorists criminals from Sri Lankan prisons. The LTTE Tamil terrorists …
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More than 30 years: We, the victims of LTTE war crimes are STILL awaiting justice
Shenali D Waduge
“On both visits of the UNHRC head to Sri Lanka none of the LTTE victims were even met and UN local office / local NGO representatives or even foreign envoys did not even bother to arrange meetings …
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Jaffna was a kinglet subject to the Kandyan Kingdom: Military expedition under Mudaliar Attapattu despatched by Kandyan King Senerath to defend Jaffna Tamils from Portuguese conquest in 1619 is further evidence
Why would the Kandyan King Senarath dispatch a military expeditionary force under Mudaliar Attapattu to defend the Tamils against the Portuguese in 1619 AD? The answer is simple. The Jaffna province was a kinglet and tributary of the Kandyan Kingdom. …
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VISIT OF PRINCE ZEID AL HUSSEIN
By Sugath Samarasinghe
Prince Al Hussein has come and gone after a four days visit. Our big talking duo, who bragged to the BBC, Al Jazeera and the latter to the Indian Media a little earlier, that there would be …
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Demonstration At the Sri Lanka High Commission by Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement
The Sri Lankan communities in the UK, and around the world, have become disheartened by the current political instability taking place in their country of origin. After a 30-year war between government forces and the separatist group, the LTTE terrorists, …
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Geneva demands less intrusive and intimidating military presence in N & E
(by Courtesy of The Island )
Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has interpreted the first step in security sector reform as withdrawal of a section of security forces from the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
The Northern Province comprises …
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Yahapalana hegemony solidifies
(Courtesy of The Island)
Blunder of Yahapalanaya
The attempt by the SLFP parliamentarians in the Joint Opposition to become an independent group in parliament came to naught with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya refusing to grant them that recognition. The excuse he …
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LTTE Terrorists Attack of the Month
On 14 th May 1985 LTTE attacked the sacred Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
Numbers Game
13th Amendment
