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Political
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New peace initiative for New Year |
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By Our Political Editor |
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Ahead of the second Avurudhu season under his executive Presidency, Mahinda Rajapaksa appeared to be on the all important task of stock taking.
The recent months have seen an unprecedented escalation of the undeclared Eelam War IV. Compared to the previous phases, it has had a more telling effect on Sri Lankans countrywide. |
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5th
Column |
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Gifts for all but one from Avurudu Prince |
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By Rypvanwinkle |
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My Dear Avurudu Kumaraya,
I thought I must write to you not only because the New Year is near but also to find out whether you would be coming this way at all: with so many travel advisories warning against coming to Sri Lanka, we couldn't blame you if you didn't arrive at all! |
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Situation
Report |
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Not published with this week issue. |
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By Iqbal Athas |
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The
Economic Analysis |
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New Year festivities diminished by low paddy prices |
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By the Economist |
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 The National New Year is a period of rejoicing. Festivities of the New Year are closely associated with the harvest. It is the time to sell the paddy, settle debts, buy new clothes, make sweet meats, play the rabana and herald the New Year. This New Year could have been a joyous one indeed had paddy farmers received the promised price for their plentiful harvest. Regrettably in many paddy growing areas farmers continue to face a market failure. |
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Thoughts
from London |
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Amnesty, oh, Amnesty where art thou fled, child? |
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By Neville de Silva |
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 If those wunder kinder at Amnesty International had been invested with the slightest degree of sensitivity they would not have made such a mess of its human rights campaign.
One thing that unites the Sri Lankan people, irrespective of prevailing differences, hardships and even conflict, is an unprovoked assault on the country's cricket team; any attempt directly or indirectly to drag it into the centre of our concerns. |
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Issue
of the week |
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Not published with this week issue. |
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By Ameen Izzadeen |
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Focus
on Rights |
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Criticism of the state and the failure of the rule of law |
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By Kishali Pinto
Jayawardena |
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The difficulties that thousands of Sri Lankans face in securing their basic right to life, (let alone the quality of life), in this Sinhala and Tamil New Year, appear to be of concern to only to a few in this country. The illusion of living in a functioning system even in midst of extreme horror, deprivation, death and destruction continues. |
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Lobby |
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Not published with this week issue. |
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By Chandani Kirinde, Our
Lobby Correspondent |
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Inside
the glass house |
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Foreign service: Kohona speaks of language and restructuring |
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By Thalif Deen at the united nations |
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Palitha Kohona, who spent 12 years as a diplomat in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and 11 years as an international civil servant heading the UN treaty section in New York, is determined to restructure and revitalize Sri Lanka's foreign service. |
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