The Sri Lankan Government has approved a proposal by a Tamil MP to pay reparations for war-affected & missing persons which include families of LTTE unlawful combatants. LTTE remains a banned terrorist organization, without first holding LTTE on trial for its war crimes against the State of Sri Lanka & its people what kind of […]

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KAMALIKA PIERIS ‘War crimes’ is a new thing. Nobody bothered about war crimes, when in World War II, major cities like London, Dresden and Berlin, were bombed, killing millions, or when    bombs were dropped on Hiroshima, or when Biafra was starved into submission in the Nigerian Civil War of 1967. The present day notion of […]

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Richard J Rogers Partner, Global Diligence LLP PRESS RELEASE: 14 June 2018  This week the Sri Lankan Government approved a Bill to pay reparations to war affected persons, including the families of missing persons. The ‘Reparations Bill’ will establish an Office for Reparations to be based in Colombo. The Bill will be sent to Parliament for […]

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R Chandrasoma While the plight of Man in an unfriendly Universe and the struggle to achieve an emancipation that radically terminates his existential woes are the chief concerns of the Buddhist Pilgrim, there are issues – both historical and cosmological – that cannot be ignored. Let us start with planetary history – as currently revealed […]

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Dr Hector Perera         London After a long day of school, you ride the bus home and anxiously anticipate having a snack as soon as you burst through the front door. But what kind of snack will you choose? Will it be a healthy apple or celery with peanut butter? Or will you head for the potato chips and soda? The answer probably depends upon what’s available in the […]

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 lanka C news අධිකරණය විසින් බරපතල වැඩ ඇතිව වසරක සිර දඬුවම් නියම කරන ලද බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමියන්ට බන්ධනාරගාරයේදී ජම්පරය ඇදීම ප‍්‍රතික්‍ෂෙප කර ඇත. තම සිවුර ඉවත් කලොහොත් උපවාසයක නිරත වන්නේ යයි උන් වහන්සේ සදහන් කර ඇති බවද වාර්තා වෙයි. උන් වහන්සේ සිවුර පමණක් ඉවත් කර අදනකඩයට උඩින් සුදු […]

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By Yonette Joseph and Tiffany May Courtesy The New York Times LONDON — In 1922, the same year he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein set out with his wife Elsa on a five-and-a-half-month odyssey of discovery of a new world: the Far East and Middle East. Along the way, he was feted by a Japanese empress and […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  යහ පාලන රජය එක්‌ මාසයක්‌ තුළ ගෙන ඇති ණය ප්‍රමාණය රාජපක්‍ෂ රජය 2014 මුළු වර්ෂය තුළම ලබාගත් ණයට වඩා වැඩි මුදලක්‌ බවත්, මේ අනුව ඉකුත් මැයි මාසයේදී පමණක්‌ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රාජ්‍ය ණයට එකතු වූ මුළු මුදල රු. බිලියන 842 ක්‌ බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා පවසයි. […]

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