By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
When Dr Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected to  the Presidency of Sri Lanka in 2005, the terrorists, the LTTE power was at its zenith, having aggrandized its position through the nefarious CFA peace agreement done by the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, which was in favour of the terrorists. The armed forces [...]

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Bandula Kothalawala London N7
In May this year, just after the Sri Lankan Government announced the death of the LTTE leader and released a picture of his corpse, British television stations, not to be outdone, telecast their own picture of Prabhakaran, live, kicking and smiling at his own corpse. Channel 4, as far as I can [...]

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By Charles.S.Perera
We can face the hypocrisy of the West , evidently led by the British and now the Assistant Secretary of State of USA Robert Blake, to undermine the development of our country and break it up territorially if possible, and come off unscathed only if all Sri Lankans are united behind the government,
 It is [...]

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High Commissioner H.E Senaka Walgampaya
High Commissioner H.E Senaka Walgampaya’s letter to the Editor of The  Canberra Times in response to the article titled “Terrorists or tomorrow’s allies?” written by Mr. Bruce Haigh and published on 01st September 2009.
2nd September 2009
Editor
The Canberra Times
I write with reference to the article which appeared yesterday in the Opinion Page [...]

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Piyal Samarakone
When President Reagan’s Administration led or positively involved in disintegration of mighty Soviet Union perhaps never imagined that one day United States will become a naïve state in world stage.
Although USA never learnt its lessons from Viet-Cons former USSR did from Mujahideens. That is why South Ossetia and Abkhazia became only a single little [...]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
September 11, 2009
Chief  Executive
Channel 4 
 P.O.Box 1058                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Belfast, BT1 9DU
Sir:
I wrote to you on August 30, 2009 with reference to your broadcast of the video clip of the shooting deaths of unarmed people, who you described as Tamils, allegedly shot by the Sri [...]

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ALI SUKHANVER
The national flag of a country is no doubt the most sacred asset for a nation. A true patriot always considers the flag of his country more important than his own life. History is replete with the names of soldiers who sacrificed their lives just to keep their flag flattering. But there happened something [...]

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Nava Thakuria
The experts and journalists of Asia Pacific region have expressed deep concern at the slow progress in the current round of climate negotiations given the scale and magnitude of the adverse impacts of sea-rise because of continued green house gas emissions by industrialised and developed countries.

Adopting a Dhaka Declaration, the participants of 18th Congress [...]

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Folks, this is worth reading right through! Very familiar scenario
  REST OF THE WORLD VERSION:
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building And improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel [...]

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