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		<title>Repeating the Boycott of Presidential Election Once Again</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/12/30/repeating-the-boycott-of-presidential-election-once-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr D.  Chandraratna,  Western Australia.
Once again that ghost of separatism is raising its ugly head. A number of Tamil organisations spurred on by the Diaspora are appealing to the Tamil voters to boycott Presidential elections. The LTTE used the same tactic to forcibly drive a wedge between the Tamil electorate and the rest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jokers, Wannabe Presidents and the Commoners</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/12/02/jokers-wannabe-presidents-and-the-commoners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr D. Chandraratna, Australia
The word joker seems to be cropping up these days for whatever reason in the Sri Lankan news bulletins in relation to the presidential poll. This is good news for the incumbent President as he cannot be painted by the same brush. Joker, for the Sri Lankans is an interesting word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Should Look at the Bright Side of Things</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/21/why-we-should-look-at-the-bright-side-of-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Donald Chandraratna, Perth, Australia
A sense of despondency and gloom overhangs the political environment these days. The turn of events after the retirement of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and his likely entry into the mainstream of politics has caused this despondency among the nationalists (we are called pseudo nationalist or chauvinists by Western Oriented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rape in War: Mrs Clinton has over stepped the mark</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/10/03/rape-in-war-mrs-clinton-has-over-stepped-the-mark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=4214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Donald Chandraratna, Australia
This incessant talk of violating human rights is fast becoming hollow talk by Western powers who do not apply the rules of fairness to the charges and allegations levelled at poorer nations in the world. No one will deny that there are serious violations from time to time by all states parties including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DON’T CRY FOR US……..IDP’S</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/09/23/don%e2%80%99t-cry-for-us%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6-idp%e2%80%99s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3977</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr D. Chandraratna, Australia
The so called international community and a few disgruntled Sri Lankan NGO’ voices are making a mockery out of the situation of IDP’s again. Once the Channel 4 Video allegation melted into thin air along with Mr Solheim and Professor Alston the IDP issue is back on the agenda.
Surely, there must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doubting the morality of International relations: A healthy suspicion of the Sri Lankan mind</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/09/21/doubting-the-morality-of-international-relations-a-healthy-suspicion-of-the-sri-lankan-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr D.Chandraratna, Australia
The drama of international relations played in the portals of Colombo has done all of us a favour. And that is the suspicion and doubt that it has created in the minds of thinking people.  The aggressiveness of diplomacy in the past few months have prompted us to question the validity of theories, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A  Conspiracy of/in Silence</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/09/17/a-conspiracy-ofin-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr D Chandraratna, Australia
Much has happened in Sri Lanka in the four months after the demise of the LTTE. No more blood letting, no more claymores’ and no more needless loss of lives. There is more economic activity, people movement, protests, social and cultural activities and a sense of sheer freedom and relief among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Justice Matters: A comparative view</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/09/11/why-justice-matters-a-comparative-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dr Donald Chandraratna, Perth, Western Australia
The British High commission has ruled that Dr Kohona and Mr Arjuna Ranatunga are technically and legally not entitled to enter UK.  Likewise the Canadian Embassy has refused the visa for Rev Somananda Nayaka Thero on the grounds that Reverend and Thero do not appear in the passport.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LTTE Transmogrified Into a Virtual Eelam Trans-national State: Tigers in Sheep Skins or an Exercise in Futility?</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/06/18/ltte-transmogrified-into-a-virtual-eelam-trans-national-state-tigers-in-sheep-skins-or-an-exercise-in-futility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=1542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr D.Chandraratna, Perth, Australia
Within a month or so after the elimination of the Terrorist outfit the same core group in the Tamil Diaspora has come out with the novel idea of a transnational state. The Eelam State is formed by an identity nexus among all Tamils in the world. While not dismissing totally the mundane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WAR CRIMES- NOT A LEG TO STAND ON</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/06/09/war-crimes-not-a-leg-to-stand-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=1291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr Donald Chandraratna, Australia 
The diktats of innumerable conventions beginning from Franz Leibers code in 1863, which try to limit the rights of belligerent warring parties to minimise the suffering of civilians are usually claimed as Western in origin. This may be correct although similar but more virtuous sentiments of righteousness in the conduct of [...]]]></description>
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