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Political
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Govt. reverts to the unlucky 13th |
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By Our Political Editor |
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 A patient suffering from mild ulcer was given a drug. It did not cure him. His condition became worse and turned into cancer. Twenty-one years later, the same patient is administered the same old drug. Is this reasonable? |
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5th
Column |
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Touche! You don’t know dear, how much you taught me! |
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By Rypvanwinkle |
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My Dear Uncle Junius Richard,
I thought I must write to you, wherever in heaven you are, to thank you for what you did over twenty years ago and more so because that is what has saved me in these difficult times. |
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Situation
Report |
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Pressure mounts on LTTE: Tell the truth now |
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By Iqbal Athas |
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 The truth, they say, is the first casualty of war. In more than two decades of the separatist war in Sri Lanka, this axiom has been proved right many a time. If one were to add up the casualty figures put out by Government officials since inception, it would have wiped out the population of Jaffna twice over. |
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The
Economic Analysis |
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Importing rice once again: so much for self sufficiency |
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By the Economist |
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 Once again the country is importing rice. Not so long ago we were celebrating the attainment of self-sufficiency, in fact even exporting a quantity of rice, out of national pride rather than good economics. Now we are compelled to import rice to cope with a shortfall in production in relation to market demand |
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Thoughts
from London |
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None so blind as those who refuse to see |
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By Neville de Silva |
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It seems that it is not just British MPs who cannot see the wood for the trees. When I commented last week on the recent adjournment debate on Sri Lanka in the House of Commons and said that some of those British parliamentarians seemed to have lost their way in the forest, I did not expect a response from Muralidaran. |
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Issue
of the week |
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Not issued with this week's issue |
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By Ameen Izzadeen |
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Focus
on Rights |
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Sri Lankan war criminals and British justice |
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By Kishali Pinto
Jayawardena |
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Seldom has such a richly feathered pigeon, (in so far as Sri Lankan war criminals are concerned and let us not be coy about the language we use), fluttered within the grasp of British justice as 'Colonel' Karuna. |
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Lobby |
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Not issued with this week's issue |
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By Chandani Kirinde, Our
Lobby Correspondent |
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Inside
the glass house |
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UN staff pay for the sins of big powers |
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By Thalif Deen at the united nations |
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 When the UN offices in Algeria were bombed last month, the hidden fury of the terrorist group responsible for the attack may have been indirectly aimed at the Security Council or at the Organization as a political body.
But the 17 staff members who were killed in that attack ..... |
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Telescope |
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Not issued with this week's issue |
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By J.S. Tissainayagam |
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