– Kumar Mosesƒ”š‚  LTTE has become an easy scapegoat for all war crimes, the double genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Tamil Elamists. True, LTTE did commit most crimes but it was not the LTTE alone. Tamil Elamists actively participated in all these war crimes. Ideological, physical and propaganda support for these war crimes […]

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By Charles.S.Perera ƒ”š‚ There were statements fromƒ”š‚  two women that appeared oneƒ”š‚  in the Sunday Island of theƒ”š‚  6 June,2010, and the other in theƒ”š‚  Times of India of theƒ”š‚  5 June,2010.ƒ”š‚  The former ƒ”š‚ is from Chandrika Bandaranayake Kumaratunga, a woman known very well in Sri Lanka, and who knows about Sri Lanka.ƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ The other is […]

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by Charles.S.Perera Arundhati Roy came to fame after writing a book, The God of Small Things, for which she got the Booker Prize for 1997. Six million copies were said to have been sold in 80 languages. She now writes essays from Nuclear weaponisation in India and Pakistan to terrorism in Sri Lanka. ƒ”š‚ She has […]

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OPEN NOTEBOOK BY RANDOM JOTTINGS Courtesy The Manila Times WITH its foreboding lighting effects that appear to have been plucked straight out of Dante’s dark epic Inferno”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚and cleverly devised one suspects to reduce its willing, and oftentimes unsuspecting, “victims”ƒ”š‚ to submission”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚the BBC’s HARDtalk program has attained a universal reputation (or should that be notoriety?) for […]

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By Neville de Silva The Nation – ANN ƒ”š‚ Briefing Bangkok-based diplomats at the height of the recent red- shirt protest and violence, Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya warned foreign governments and NGOs not to interfere in Thailand’s internal affairs.Obviously irked by offers of mediation or attempts at interference by foreign governments, international bodies – governmental […]

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