Challenging enforced self-deceit
[TamilNet, Saturday, 11 May 2013, 11:38 GMT]A former UN official and a key witness to the Vanni War admitted to a diaspora gathering last Sunday that it was genocide that had taken place. But he...
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Sri Lanka allows International Bar Association delegation to visit country
Tue, May 14, 2013, 02:24 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 13, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has lifted its ban on fact-finding visits by the International Bar Association's Human...
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Sri Lanka seeks a loan to set up a new refinery
Mon, May 13, 2013, 11:06 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 13, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government will seek US$ 2.5 billion through a foreign loan to set up a new oil refinery in the...
View ArticleGenocide could be mandated by democracy of West: Malathy
[TamilNet, Saturday, 11 May 2013, 10:58 GMT]“Tamils agonize why the entire setup of Western institutions refuses to call what happened to us and what is happening to us is Genocide. Should the Tamils...
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UK author eulogising Sri Lanka COIN backfires exposing USA
[TamilNet, Friday, 10 May 2013, 20:02 GMT]While Sri Lanka’s genocidal war on the Eezham Tamils architected by world powers, being reduced to only ‘human rights abuses’ in the criticism by political...
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Buddhist extremist organization challenges Sri Lankan Minister over claim of...
Mon, May 13, 2013, 11:45 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 13, Colombo: The general secretary of Sri Lanka's Buddhist extremist organization, Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) challenged the...
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Sri Lanka Marxist party to move a motion against Attorney General
Mon, May 13, 2013, 12:57 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has decided to move a motion against the special...
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Sri Lanka President to meet coalition parties to address controversy over...
Sun, May 12, 2013, 08:03 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 12, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has scheduled two crucial meetings with the coalition parties of the...
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Boycott campaigns worsen Sri Lanka's economic woes
[TamilNet, Friday, 10 May 2013, 02:34 GMT]Targeting brand label garment stores including Victoria Secret and Gap which sell Sri Lankan made apparel, Tamil activists held protests in New York, San...
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Colombo plans settling 5,000 Sinhala families in Mannaar: TNA MP
[TamilNet, Thursday, 09 May 2013, 22:11 GMT]The occupying Sri Lanka has planned to appropriate lands in Mannaar district of the occupied country of Eezham Tamils to settle five thousand Sinhala...
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Close to home, but not close enough Meera Srinivasan
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Evergreen amma ANASUYA MENON
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Biggest challenge India faces is restoring people’s trust: Modi
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Behold the Future
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara“Everything is going to end in violence….and who knows what limits of madness will be reached?”Georg Forster (Works XVII)( May 9, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) A...
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Sri Lanka: The Rajapaksa Paranoia
by Nilantha Ilangamuwa( May 8, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Another Rajapaksa modus operandi‘arrest’ has been reported in Colombo where the former deputy mayor of the Colombo Municipal Council...
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Is Jaffna our first military town?
|Ceylon Today Editorial ( May 8, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The prospect of 'Gaza' of the Sri Lankan kind emerging in the Northern territories is beginning to appear increasingly inevitable....
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A Rejoinder to Hoole: Tamil Hinduism and Arumuka Navalar
| by Romesh Jayaratnam( April 30, 2013, Kandy, Sri Lanka Guardian) I respond to the three opinion pieces of Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole namely (i) "Arumuka Navalar: Fake Images and Histories"...
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New diamond bourse set to house all units soon Sharleen D'souza | Mumbai BS
The Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) at the business hub of the Bandra Kurla Complex will see the rest of the business shifting there in the next few months. "More than 70 per cent of diamond traders and...
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Walmart calls on Bangladesh to take action with three factories BS
Walmart called on the Bangladesh government on Monday to stop production at one apparel factory and investigate the condition at another until workers' safety could be assured. The unusual action...
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Duty-free car- permits
May 13, 2013, 8:11 pmIt is reported that the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the grant of duty-free car- permits to unsuccessful/defeated candidates at Provincial Council elections.Is there any...
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