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After FTZ clash, crisis now on Indian front
It was with a great sigh of relief that the government saw through the turbulent events of last week. It had managed to act swiftly in defusing what could have been an explosive situation following the police shooting of the 22-year-old Free Trade Zone worker.
5th Column

Hope springs eternal in the human mind

I thought I must write and congratulate you when I heard you have been selected for the national cricket team once again to play against England-and that too just a few days short of your forty second birthday! Of course, it was said that you got this chance because the captain has fractured his hand and his opening partner is involved in a controversy over taking a drug he is not supposed to take, but what matters most now is that you have got the chance for one last hurrah, isn’t it?
The Economic Analysis
External trade vulnerability despite export growth
In spite of the improved export performance in the first quarter of this year, the country is heading towards a large trade deficit. This is owing to fundamental weaknesses in the external trade structure of the country that renders it highly vulnerable o international price movements.
Lobby
National security bogey raised to skirt issues
Chief Government Whip Dinesh Gunawardena on Wednesday refused to divulge the findings of a commission set up to look into alleged irregularities committed in the procurement of arms and ammunition for the military, citing “threats to national security.”
Focus on Rights
The farce has been carried out for too long now
Extreme police brutality as manifested recently during the protests by the Katunayake Free Trade Zone (FTZ) workers is nothing that one should be astonished at. This is but a logical culmination of the militarization of the Sri Lanka Police which has been steadily progressing apace during the past years. This process had, of course, accelerated with astonishing speed during the past three years.
Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Mixed messages on massacre

The Government’s decision to commemorate the killing of 600 unarmed policemen by the LTTE with two minutes silence at all police stations has not been welcomed by everyone.

From the sidelines
Not issued on this week
 
 
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