Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 .  Canada
February 6, 2010
Your Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa President of Sri Lanka
Temple Trees, Colombo Sri Lanka.
Your Excellency:
With your busy daily schedule I doubt you have time to read the local newspapers, but, however your morning briefing notes would have flagged the concerns brought to [...]

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Mahinda weerasinghe -Author of. Mission to Oslo
(UD – Norwegian Foreign office)Translated version of the attached Article appeared in NY TID 5. – 11 February 2010. Page 43 -IN Norwegian it was called “Norsk fallitt pa Sri Lanka” Translated this would mean “Norwegian collapse in Sri Lanka”
The voter turnout for the Sri Lankan presidential election may [...]

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Ananda W. P. Guruge
The death of Sri Lanka’s most eminent and renowned and deservingly legendary surgeon, Desamanya Dr. P. R. Anthonis, within days of reaching the hundredth birthday, engulfed thousands of his friends and well-wishers in depths of sorrow. We have all been beneficiaries of his superior talent as a healer and his remarkable generosity [...]

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Ananda De Costa
The following is an extract from some recent news article written by a critic of Singapore.
“Dr Chee Soon Juan, Singapore’s most prominent  opposition leader and human rights defender, is again in prison, along with his colleague Gandhi Ambalam. In December 2009, they were found guilty under the Miscellaneous Offences Act of distributing pamphlets during the 2006 [...]

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චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
හුම්මානේ හරිම ලස්සන තැනකි. එම ස්ථානයට දේශීය හා විදේශීය සංචාරකයින් පවා යන තරමට එම ස්ථානය ප්‍රසිද්ධ බවත්, එම පලාතේ ජනතාවට ඒ හේතුවෙන් අමතර ආදායමක් ලබා ගත හැකි තත්වයක් උදාවී ඇති බවත් අපට ඇසේ. එය බලන්න යන සමහර අය අවට පරිසරය පුරා, තමන් කෑමෙන් හා බීමෙන් පසු ඉතිරිවන දෑ විසුරුවා, පලාතම ගද ගස්සන බවත් [...]

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Ben Silva
I am referring to the media report that India is to open a consulate in Jaffna.
Indians are treated with respect and affection by most Sri Lankans. The
Sinhalese are fully aware that their ancestors, religion, language, dress etc came from India.. However the destruction of the Sinhala civilisation is attributed to invasions from South India. [...]

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By Dr. Stephen Long, Los Angeles, California
My last article about Sri Lanka was entitled, “Is Sri Lanka Crazy Enough to Elect a Retired General as President?” Yesterday’s election answered that question with a resounding “No!” It actually answered a number of questions with a resounding “No!” Here are a few of those questions:
 “Is Sri Lanka [...]

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By Janaka Alahapperuma
President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at Vinukoa International Airport in Moscow today (6th February) for three day official visit to Russian Federation.
This afternoon President Rajapaksa will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the People’s Friendship University of Russian Federation (PFU), formally known as Patricia Lumumba University for his contribution for world peace and outstanding [...]

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