Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Daily News
Questions were raised as to the letter of resignation sent by Gen Sarath Fonseka at a press conference on November 13th. Anticipating such questions, Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe had obtained a copy of the letter.
We had had several instances of subtly changed documents being circulated, obviously for political purposes. The two different [...]

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By Élaezha Chola
There is no nation on earth that boasts of 2 homelands – Tamil Nadu (Nadu means Homeland) is the current homeland of the Tamil people and will always remain so. The British, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and French have had many colonies but always only one homeland. Can the huge Italian population in the [...]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Hon. Mahinda Samarasinghe, M.P, Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights addressed the 60th Session of the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva today. Hon. Samarasinghe is among a large [...]

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 Editorial The Island
 
“Earth has not anything to show more fair,” wrote Wordsworth of the breathtaking view of the mist clad London from the Westminster Bridge way back in 1802. But today the earth has nothing to show more dreadful and unfair than what is unfolding at the British Parliamentary Square, where terrorism is being advocated [...]

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