By Garvin Karunaratne, BA,M.A.(Cey), MA(Mich) M.Phil.(Edin) Ph.D(MSU, US).former Government Agent, Matara District Introduction Sky rocketing consumer goods is a concern for everybody. The Rajapakse Government has declared that it will win this economic war too, now that the separatist terrorist outfit of Prabakaran which was threatening the very existence of this country has been annihilated. […]

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Geethanjana Kudaligamage Sri Lanka is in historical crossroads; and has reached to a critical juncture in her entire history of two and a half millennium. Opening up a new politico-economical and a military chapter, radically severing the dependency on the west, Sri Lanka has taken a far-reaching twist in the course of its history toward […]

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Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.ƒ”š‚  Nations customarily measure the ‘costs of war’ in dollars, lost production, or the number of soldiers killed or wounded.” But, “rarely do military establishments attempt to measure the costs of war in terms of individual suffering-Richard Gabriel Vietnam War and theƒ”š‚  Elam War had many similarities and many differences. But […]

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Mahinda Gunasekeraƒ”š‚  March 28, 2010 The Tamil Diaspora which funded the brutal terrorist movement called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) also known as the Tamil Tigers, has regularly changed its disguise through a simple metamorphosis involving a name change and re-arranging the deck with new faces to hide their links to the designated […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Director of Outreach Affairs Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Ottawa Hilda Jayewardenaramaya THERAVADA BUDDHIST TEMPLE 1481 Heron Road Ottawa, Ontario ƒ”š‚  27 March 2010 ƒ”š‚  The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN ƒ”š‚  Sir: ƒ”š‚  Re: style cover photo – Spring 2010 ƒ”š‚  As a Buddhist I have taken great exception to the cover photograph in the […]

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ALI SUKHANVER The Pak-US strategic dialogues held in the last week of March, 2010 could have been more fruitful if theƒ”š‚  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had not bestowed uponƒ”š‚  Pakistan the status of being a “ƒ”¹…”priority’ in US strategic plan. In her preface to the dialogues she lauded the role of Pakistan towards […]

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