ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Vol. 41 - No 31
 
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Political Column
  UNP rolls like a barrel
  By Our Political Editor
 
Another year gets completed today, with Sri Lanka no closer to being home and dry from the ravages of a separatist struggle that was launched 30 years ago with the Vaddukottai Resolution -- under the banner of the then minority Tamil political leadership comprising the Tamil United Liberation Front.
5th Column
  Let us step into a year of survival rather than prosperity
  By Rypvanwinkle
 
"Thaaththa," Bindu Udagedera asked, "what will you wish for the New Year?"
Situation Report
  Not published with this issue
  By Iqbal Athas
 

 

The Economic Analysis
  Not published with this issue
  By the Economist
 

 

Thoughts form London
  When you have nothing useful to say keep mum
  By Neville de Silva
  The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once famously said: "Whereof one cannot speak thereon one must be silent." Crudely put it translated into this - if you have nothing useful to say shut your mouth.
Issue of the week
  Not published with this issue
  By Ameen Izzadeen
   
Focus on Rights
  A reflective essay on 'patriotism' towards the end of 2006
  By Kishali Pinto Jayawardena
 

As this year draws to a close, I find myself bewildered by xenophobic sentiments that are becoming extremely strident in their articulations.

Lobby
  Not published with this issue
  By Chandani Kirinde, Our Lobby Correspondent
   
Inside the glass house
  Might is right: Ethiopia moves into Mogadishu; UN helpless
  By Thalif Deen at the united nations
  NEW YORK - When Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded neighbouring Kuwait — a longstanding US ally — in August 1990, the invasion of sovereign territory was rightly considered an unforgivable political sin.
 
 
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