By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles The recent statement that some cadres of ƒ”š‚ Sri Lanka’s crushed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have joined Maoists of the Sothern Indian state of Karnataka is a process that continued to happen without any break with the fall of the movement back in 2009 by the Sri […]

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L. Jayasooriya The postmortem on India is still not over. Yesterday on March 26th Minister GL Peiris at a televised news conference using the most scathing words possible against India in the politest possible language and tone stated what Sri Lanka felt about India. That gives us some self respect which this government has denied […]

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Hameed Abdul Karim ƒ”š‚  When you think of the word “ƒ”¹…”law’ the images that come to your mind are of a stern looking judge seated on an elevated position in the centre of a court house flanked by a grim looking, if not frightened, members of a jury, lawyers dressed in their flowing robes quarrelling […]

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By Gunadasa Amarasekera-Courtesy The Island On 2nd March 1815, we ceded our sovereignty to the – greatest empire at the time-The British Empire- of which it was said “ƒ”¹…”the sun never set’. On 22nd March 2012 we were intimidated into taking the first step to cede our sovereignty to the most powerful empire of today”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚the […]

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