Asada M Erpini A Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au) report dated 16 November, quoted by local Sri Lanka media, refers to a Tamil detained in Melbourne who had attempted suicide. The SMH correspondents go on to mention other similar events and the deportation of “ƒ”¹…”refugees’ from Sri Lanka. It adds that international pressure “builds up for […]

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Anura Senevirathna (expat Hela team).        Most nations proudly identify with their national name and their land bears the name of their nation of people as the basic human right to their sovereign country, so no foreign entity can ever raise an illegal claim to their natural heritage to the end of the world.  The […]

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David Gladston- former British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka  I got to know Ossie when I was British High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, during the dark days of the Second JVP Insurrection in 1988.  His predecessor, Vijaya Kumaratunga, had been assassinated early in the year and it was clear that the threat of a similar […]

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 By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island November 15, 2012, 10:08 pm  The government should do away with the existing provinces and introduce a system of devolution and administration consisting of three or four zones so that the expenditure to maintain nine provincial councils could be reduced, TNA Leader R. Sampanthan, MP said in Parliament yesterday.  He warned […]

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R Chandrasoma The word “ƒ”¹…”worldview’ ( in German Weltanschauung, Sinhala Chinthanaya) denotes the fundamental orientation of a society or civilization in dealing with the problems and challenges of the world “”…” its basic attitudes on how man ought to interact with his fellows and the world so as  to ensure general beneficence for the living […]

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