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By James Jayalath from Melbourne
01/11/2009
Mr. Jayantha Wickramaratna
Inspector General of Police
Dear Mr.Wickramratna,
I am not sure whether this email will reach to you personally but I thought that I should write to you and let you know, how I felt about the incident at Bambalapitiya Beach, which I read and watched in horror in Daily Mirror last [...]
By Shelton A. Gunaratne©2009
[N.B.: I wrote part of this installment with my Peradeniya campus contemporaries of the late ’50s and early ‘60s in mind. Others may not find much significance in the names mentioned.]
On my return to Sri Lanka from travels Down Under, my operational headquarters shifted from Happawana to the Lodge, also called the [...]
By Shelton A. Gunaratne©2009
Happawana lies east of Galle on A17, the road that leads to Imaduwa and beyond.
At the junction where you get off the bus, a gravel road forking southward across a vast rice paddy implicitly entices you to cross over to the other side to enjoy the salubrious breeze sweeping through the paddy [...]
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
October 31, 2009
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
Your reporting that the new Head of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS), Richard B. Fadden
has called a spade a spade and had the courage to state after a reality check that Canada has a “loose
partnership of a single issue NGOs, [...]
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada
31 October 2009
Dr.Radika Coomaraswamy
Under-Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict
United Nations, New York US
Dear Radhika Coomaraswamy:
This is what I read in the Inner City Press today – “Inner City Press asked if she thought that the condition of IDP children in the Menik Farm camp [...]
Jay Deshabandu
Today, our country is at a cross-road. No one is sure where it would head at this point of time. Unfortunately, our country is full of joker-politicians, like those in Tamil Nadu, who put the country down the ditch before himself. People of this country must show gratitude to President Rajapaksha for providing the [...]
Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, Australia
‘People-smuggling’ had been highlighted in the discussions at the formal session of the East Asia Summit held in Thailand last week. The issue came to lime light because of the influx of bogus Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka to Australia and Canada recently.
Back in Australia, the controversy over them between the government and the opposition reached [...]
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