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‘Colonel’ Thamilini’s version of events leading to LTTE’s annihilation
Courtesy of The Island
By Shamindra Ferdinando
The launch of ‘Thiyunu Asipathaka Sevana Yata’ (In the Shadow of a Sharp Sword), Sinhala translation of ‘Oru Koorvaalin Nizhalil’, life story of high ranking LTTE cadre, Subramaniam Sivakamy alias ‘Col’ Thamilini, took …
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Sri Lanka’s debt to Buddhism and the way forward in strengthening its Buddhist identity
By Senaka Weeraratna
Buddhism has shaped the lives of our people, the identity, and the direction of our society in a way unmatched by any other religion. Buddhism has been the national faith for over two millennia and the bedrock …
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FROM “CEYLON” TO “SRI LANKA”
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The British name for the island, ‘Ceylon’ came from the Dutch ‘Zeylan’ . ‘Zeylan’ came from the Portuguese ‘Ceilao’ . Ceilao came from the Arabic ‘Zailan’ which was derived from the indigenous ‘Sinhala’. Therefore these were all versions …
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Can Government keep the momentum?
(Courtesy of Sunday Times)
After 16 months of holding the post of Prime Minister, is UNP on a navigated route or on a collision course with the people? Undoing is self-inflicted: mainly caused by the leader’s cloistered advisers living far …
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Sri Lanka must set up a LTTE Terror Remembrance Museum on the lines of Vietnams War Remnants Museum
It is getting tedious to be countering lies that are being publicized globally by well-funded campaigns generated from criminal syndicates that continue to function and were part of the LTTE international criminal network. Whatever attempts being made to downplay the …
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Blessed are the Tamil politicians for they can recover their tongues
“The TULF / TNA knew what the LTTE could do to the unarmed. They knew what they had done to those who were armed, those who had the guns and had undergone relevant training. The LTTE annihilated the TELO, and …
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Good for the Indian Goose, not good for the Sri Lankan Gander
(Courtesy of The Island)
by Rajeewa Jayaweera
One of the most contentious aspects in Indo – Pak relations since independence has been the Kashmir issue. Kashmir was a majority Muslim state governed by a Hindu ruler at time of independence
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Sri Lanka’s Military Victory over LTTE Terrorists: MEDIA and HR Groups purposely distorted Ban Ki Moon’s Panel of Expert Report
Ban Ki Moon the UN Secretary General appointed an Advisory Panel to ADVISE HIM on the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka. That advisory panel was not an officially UN General Assembly or UN Security Council endorsed panel
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NO Victory Day in Sri Lanka this year as it will hurt the Tigers… Allies don’t stop their Victory Celebrations because it may upset the Germans & Japanese?
In May 2009 Sri Lanka achieved what many had been saying was an ‘unwinnable war’. The ground force of the LTTE including its megalomanic leader Prabakaran were annihilated in a fair fight. Several times the GOSL requested the LTTE leadership …
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Jaffna – the hell-hole of persecuted and oppressed Tamil slaves
H. L. D. Mahindapala
The Dutch, British and post-independent administrators have left behind in their records grim accounts of how the Saivite-Vellahla casteists distorted and perverted the Jaffna political culture. Modern scholars (Jane Russell and Prof. Bryan Pfaffenberger etc), who …
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LTTE Terrorists Attack of the Month
On 14 th May 1985 LTTE attacked the sacred Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
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