Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 27 April 2013 Paul Dewar, MP (NDP Member of Parliament for Ottawa Centre) Rathika Sitsabaiesan, MP (NDP Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Rouge River) House of Commons, Ottawa cc.ƒ”š‚  Mr. Kamlesh Sharma, Secretary-General, The Commonwealth, Marlborough House, London, UK Dear Paul and Rathika: Re: NDP […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada ƒ”š‚ 1 May 2013 ƒ”š‚ The Editor THE OTTAWA CITIZEN ƒ”š‚ Sir: ƒ”š‚ You said that “Foreign Minister John Baird says that Commonwealth is failing its greatest test by letting Sri Lanka host this year’s leaders summit – but that Canada has no intention of leaving the organization.” […]

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ƒ”š‚ BY JANAKA GOONETILLEKE ƒ”š‚ INTRODUCTION ƒ”š‚ The news of today, whether it is the Bombs in Boston, gang rape of a young woman and her demise in India or the continuous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria, the violent demonstrations in Egypt and the continuous security checks are a reflection of the dehumanisation of the present society, […]

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Frank Reitzensteinƒ”š‚ Courtesy Pravda April 14, 2013 Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International today released “Laws of Attrition – Crackdown on Russia’s Civil Society after Putin’s Return to the Presidency”. http://www.hrw.org/node/115058/section/2 Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International who watched NATO kill 50,000 blacks, women and children in Libya are agitating because the laws passed by the […]

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Neville Ladduwahetty The recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) have come to be accepted as the holy-grail by the International Community judging from the repeated references to it both nationally and internationally in complete disregard to the Government’s National Plan of Action that was developed by incorporating selected recommendations in the LLRC […]

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