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| Rajapaksa Power-Plays: Cheating Tamils And Demonising Muslims |
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“With or without anticipation, Israeli policies helped shaped the kinds of enemies that pledge to sacrifice their lives to fight the Jewish state…” Saul Landau (IPS – 29.2.2009)
The Rajapaksas are masters at the art of political marketing. They have developed an ‘all you need to know’ crash course in building innocuous facades to hide insalubrious realities. Perhaps all the people cannot be fooled all the time. But, going by the Rajapaksa record, fooling all the people some of the time and
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| WHO lauds govt. action on its recommendations |
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) appreciated the government's positive response to its recommendation that three agro-chemicals, which had caused health problems for people in the North-Central province, be banned.
WHO Country Director Dr. F. R. Mehta, addressing a seminar on South East Asian Framework on Kidney Disease, at a Colombo hotel early this week said that the Sri Lankan government had fulfilled its commitment by taking necessary steps to prevent more people from falling prey to the deadly kidney disease by ban
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| Justice Sought For The Fallen Comrades |
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The largest mass grave in the country excavated in Matale between last November and February this year has set a new situation in motion following the revelation that the skeletal remains belonged to the period between 1986 and 1990.
The onus is now on the government to carry out a full-scale probe on the Matale mass graves following the announcement by the Matale Magistrate that the grave belonged to the period of the second JVP insurgency.
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| No flood of boats, says Sri Lanka |
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Sri Lanka's high commissioner to Australia says he doesn't expect a flood of asylum seekers will follow the 66 potential refugees who gobsmacked onlookers with their arrival in Geraldton.
Passengers of the rickety boat that pulled into the busy port on Tuesday remain in the country but will be flown to Christmas Island for processing as soon as possible, an Immigration Department spokeswoman said.
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| New Golden Key Board formed, meets CB Chief |
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Central Bank said yesterday as per the order of the Supreme Court made on 04.04.2013 in the case bearing No SC (F/R) 191/2009, a new Board of Directors was appointed to take control of The Golden Key Credit Card Company Ltd with the mandate to operate its business and safeguard and recover all of its assets.
Accordingly, Priyantha Fernando, Chairman; Jehan Amaratunga, Director; Aruna P Lekamge, Director; V K Choksy, Director; Mrs. Dushanthi Hapugoda, Director; and V V Goonatillaka, Director, were appointed Members of the Board
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| Sri Lanka 'welcomes' asylum boat returns |
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Admiral Samarasinghe said he expected the 66 suspected asylum seekers, who on Tuesday arrived on a fishing vessel at the busy West Australian port of Geraldton, to be sent back to Sri Lanka. (AAP)
Sri Lanka's high commissioner to Australia says most Sri Lankan boat arrivals are economic migrants and not refugees.
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| Sri Lanka generous towards vanquished –outgoing IOM chief Post-war rehabilitation: |
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The outgoing Chief of Mission of International Organization for Migration (IOM) Richard Danziger yesterday said that the ongoing re-integration of ex-LTTE personnel, including combatants into the society could be in jeopardy unless fresh funding was available for the project.
The continuation of the project after July would entirely depend on availability of additional funding, Danziger said in an exclusive interview with The Island at his office.
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| India should address their own HR violations - JHU |
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The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) today said, before India sought to point its finger at Sri Lanka on war crimes allegations it should address the human rights violations of the Indian people including 93,000 disappearances in Kashmir which still remained unaddressed.
JHU General Secretary and Science and Technology Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said, if the Indian Parliamentary Delegation which is currently in Sri Lanka had visited the country with honourable intentions, their visit would be welcome, but it was evident that
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| Economy has no culture or religion: Eran |
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Over investment, poor investment management and apathy in the face of the break down in the rule of law and escalating ethno-religious tensions was costing the Sri Lankan state revenue, an Opposition Parliamentarian warned while President Mahinda Rajapaksa was attending Parliamentary sessions briefly last afternoon.
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| The Fashion Bug case: A turning point for Muslim rights in Sri Lanka |
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Buddhist monks on the rampage at Fashion Bug as Police just look
The judicial case related to the violent attack on Muslim owned Fashion Bug head office and warehouse in Pepiliyana, from Colombo, is destined to be a turning point in Muslim Rights in Sri Lanka.
Following is a brief recap of the incident in order to get the context right.
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