Dr Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 25. 9 2010 A Huniyam is translated as a black spell or an incantation. But both words do not precisely convey the exact and precise meaning of the Sinhala word Huniyama to the Sinhala mind, though the Englishmen might get some vague anthropological notion associated with […]

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ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION-URGENT APPEAL PROGRAMME ISSUES: Extrajudicial killing; impunity; rule of law —————————————————— Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a man was shot dead by police officers while in the custody of an officer attached to the Embilipitiya Police Station. He was arrested on 17 September 2010 and […]

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Sri Lanka 2010 Jathika Saviya was a programme that was initiated in threatened villages following the Kebethigollawa incident. The President assigned Basil Rajapaksa to the task of looking after the needs of the people living in these villages. The Defence Secretary had also stated at the Security Council that if people moved out, then that […]

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ALI SUKHANVER ƒ”š‚ The western forces have succeeded in depriving Taliban of public support in Pakistan; surely a difficult question to be answered. For the last many years the reality of the Taliban has been a matter of confusions and misunderstandings. Since its beginning, the Taliban movement was simply and purely an ideology-based exercise strongly tinged […]

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