C. Wijeyawickrema “A Sinhala police officer cried when Tamil IDPs died in the camp.”ƒ”š‚ “Sinhala doctors cried when a Tamil IDP child died in the camp.”ƒ”š‚ Words of TNA MP Padmini Sidambaranathan in Parliament on July 7, 2009, she herself crying twice ƒ”š‚ Which is the master? ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”ƒ”š‚ […]

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By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando “In any other country the person in charge will apologise for any delay and beg pardon from passengers. In Thailand they will first worship passengers. That is why they get 12 million visitors a year; we beg the world to get 300,000. These are the people who come to your […]

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By Noor Nizam, Sri Lanka Peace Activist and freelance journalist. Hamilton , Friday 10th., July 2009. ƒ”š‚ During the final stages of the bloody military conflict between the LTTE cadres and the brave soldiers of the Sri Lankan army in the jungles of the Wanni, specially on May 16 blighted all hopes of any International intervention […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana The most venerable Thibbotuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thero, Mahanayaka of the Malwatte Chapter of the Siamese sect visited the IDP Welfare Center in Settikulam in Northern Sri Lanka, Friday July 10 and assured the inmates that they will be resettled in their original villages as soon as possible. ƒ”š‚ The Mahanayaka of Malwatte, […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana India has intimated that Sri Lanka does not have any plan to establish a military base in the island of katchatheevu . ƒ”š‚ When Communist Party of India MP D. Raja raised the question in the India’s Upper House of the Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, Minister of External Affairs S. M. Krishna said […]

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Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, Australia The UN in a statement this week has asked the government to ensure that children released by armed groups have access to care, protection and re-integration programmes. It had also stressed that the government should, “… ensure the identification, release and rehabilitation…. in accordance with international standards…’ ƒ”š‚ In fact, these child combatants were […]

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