By Hon. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Defence Secretary, Sri Lanka Defence.lk, June 13, 2013 I welcome you to this lecture under the National Interest Module of the inaugural MPhil/PhD Programme of the Kotelawala Defence University. The topic of this lecture is “Sri Lanka’s National Security Concerns”. As we all know, Sri Lanka is one of the most […]

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Asada M Erpini ƒ”š‚ The Tamil National Alliance(TNA) yesterday called for “the Northern Province Governor Major General (Rtd) G.A. Chandrasiri to be replaced with a civilian”ƒ”š‚, according to reports in the media on 23 June. Is there any reason to take the demands, threats and the lamentations of the TNA seriously? ƒ”š‚ The simple answer is “No”ƒ”š‚. […]

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Insight By Sunil Kumar June 26th 2013The recent turn of events which saw some attrocious behaviousr by Tamil Tiger activists in the UK during Sri Lanka’s Champion’s Trophy cricket final at Cardiff, Wales brings to bear the apathy on the part of the British authorities who do not seem to have prioritised the importance ofƒ”š‚  […]

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Dr Hector Pereraƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  London When the children are growing up with the parents they insist their children on education more than anything else because they are the future. It is a duty of the parents to do everything to their children and too much to mention what they are. When some children grow up, they […]

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By Shelton Gunaratne, author of Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate (Bloomington, IN: iUni I dramatized the exploits of Bandarawela Bappa or Punchi Thepal Mahattaya in Chapter 5 of my Village Life in the Forties. The memories that I have of him are still those of a “young, handsome man with […]

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