Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 5 May 2011 Hon. Jack Layton, MPƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of theƒ”š‚  NDP ƒ”š‚ House of Commons, Ottawa Dear Jack Layton: Re: “ƒ”¹…”NDP statement on UN Panel Report on accountability for War Crimes in Sri Lanka’ Here I am […]

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By Nimal Fernando-former Observer and Gulf News (Dubai) journalist, now lives in semi-retirement in the United States) Anniversaries are pregnant with opportunities — of the right kind. The upcoming anniversary of the defeat of terrorism; the liberation of the Tamil community; the return to normalcy and peace, and a quicker step towards prosperity could be […]

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JMack Google ‘Lara Stemple regurgitates Tamil Terror Propaganda’ To: Lara Stemple, open letter We cannot make you do the right thing. However we can appeal to your conscience. So here goes: The vast majority of Tamils in the U.S. financed terrorism and ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka. These Tamils are guilty of war crimes. But […]

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Ranjit Rupesinghe The Editor Time Magazine MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ! – (according to Time) Here we go again-last year when you published a list of “the most influential women” you couldn’t find a place for the world’s first female Prime Minister the late Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka who indeed was […]

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Sasanka De Silva, Pannipitiya, The government’s decision to send students who are eligible for university admission in 2011 to Army camps to expose them to leadership techniques, English language and IT training is a flawed decision. ƒ”š‚ Thanks to our old fashion paper-marking systems, first students have to wait for months to get the examination results, […]

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EMBASSY OF SRI LANKA, WASHINGTON DC Dear Sri Lankans, ƒ”š‚  We wish to inform you about a unique project initiated by Mr. Michael Sarnacki, an American photographer and a writer from Michigan, who has been in and out of Sri Lanka for the last 15 years. Michael Sarnacki has been working in our country for […]

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