By Gomin Dayasri- A senior lawyer in Sri Lanka “An agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) on a lasting political settlement is also critical.”ƒ”š‚-Under Secretary for State (US) Marie Ottero at the media conference at Colombo Hilton. ƒ”š‚ Americans will throw plenty rope to hang ourselves, as they did in […]

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By Charles. S. Perera Second part In the midst of terrorism, Sri Lanka became a victim of a terrible natural disaster on the ƒ”š‚ 26 December , 2004, ƒ”š‚ when aƒ”š‚  tsunamiƒ”š‚  of a magnitude of 9 earthƒ”š‚  quakesƒ”š‚  swept over the east coast of Sri Lanka taking a toll of ƒ”š‚ 35ƒ”š‚ 322 lives.ƒ”š‚  The people of the […]

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Asada M Erpini The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) as one of its constituent parties. The latter was founded in 1949 by Chelvanayakam, Vanniasingam and Naganathan. “Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi was shrewdly morphed into Federal Party for use by the English educated non-Tamil Sri Lankans, but the original term […]

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ƒ”š‚ Shenali Waduge There is little doubt to the truth that non-profit especially charitable organizations have become terrorist’s best friend. It is through these organizations that terrorists are sending money tax free to terrorists to procure arms & ammunition to kill while simultaneously using their “human rights”ƒ”š‚ camouflage to exert pressure on Governments/UN & international bodies […]

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Department of Foreign Affairs and Tradeƒ”š‚  Canberra- No. 14/2012 ƒ”š‚ The High Commission of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka presents its compliments to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and with reference to the visit of the Sri Lankan National Cricket Team to Australia has the honour to bring to the attention of […]

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By Nava Thakuria It was an unusual gathering where jurists, legal luminaries, political visionaries, Parliamentarians, social reformers and journalists expressed their views in a brainstorming discussion highlighting various ambiguities in the Indian governance mechanism. Most of the speakers agreed that there is an urgent need of electoral and political party reforms as India adopted a […]

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