By Garvin Karunaratne. Touring the three above countries in April and May 2009, many ideas came to my mind about howƒ”š‚  we have failedƒ”š‚  to develop Sri Lanka.ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  In turning out electrical power for the national grid.ƒ”š‚  I saw clusters of about twenty five or more wind turbines nearƒ”š‚  various cities. We in Sri Lanka […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana An attempt by the Humanitarian law Project, an organization that consists of two listed terrorist organizations, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Kurdistan Workers Party to do away the executive powers of the US President to list certain organizations as foreign terrorist groups was foiled by the 9th US circuit of […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada August 25, 2009 Ambassador Robert O Blakeƒ”š‚ , Assistant State Secretary of State, South & Centralƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ Asiaƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  State Departmentƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Washington DC, ƒ”š‚ USA Dear Robert Blake: Re:ƒ”š‚  Robert Blake: a Diplomatic-Religious Deity I am sure the come back by President Mahinda Rajapaksa through his […]

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Editorial Island Newspaper (SL) 25/08/09 Victory, we often say in these columns, has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. While Sri Lanka was fighting the so-called most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world against tremendous odds, opponents of her war effort far outnumbered its proponents. But no sooner had the LTTE been crushed […]

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Malin Abeyatunge When LTTE was conclusively defeated from Sri Lankan soil and Prabhakaran was killed and no signs of the survival of second in command Pottu Amman, the Tamil Diaspora still wanted to continue their struggle for Eelam and supported the Interpol fugitive self proclaimed leader Kumaran Pathmanathan who has many aliases. Unexpectedly for the […]

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