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Political
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HR crisis: Lanka facing last rites |
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By Our Political Editor |
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 For the first time since the January abrogation of the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement, international attention focused sharply on Sri Lanka this week.
The buzz was in Geneva where the seventh session of the United Nations Human Rights Council is under way. |
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5th
Column |
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How green could you be! Even we poor mortals could..... |
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By Rypvanwinkle |
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My Dear Green Man,
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Situation
Report |
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Troops make progress in north, but major battles ahead |
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By Iqbal Athas |
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 State intelligence agencies have been paying close attention in the past two days to the goings-on in Mallavi, located in the Mullaitivu district west of the A-9 (Kandy-Jaffna) highway.
This small township was once the centre of power for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This was when Kilinochchi was under security forces control. |
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The
Economic Analysis |
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In borrowed plumes, we relish |
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By the Economist |
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 The massive trade deficits that the country has been incurring in recent years is not viewed with any anxiety or concern as there have been small balance of payments surpluses and the foreign reserve position is good. |
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Focus on Rights |
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A slow choking of legitimate dissent |
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By Kishali Pinto
Jayawardena |
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It appears that the silencing of legitimate opinions and reasonable dissent is inexorably advancing. Witness this week's arrest of a columnist of this newspaper and the government's announcement of a national media policy that is expected to result in heightened censorship. |
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Inside the glass house |
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Israel's 'H' word and Ban's 'T' word spell duplicity |
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By Thalif Deen at the united nations |
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 When Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai threatened the Palestinians with "holocaust" -- defined as the destruction or slaughter on a mass scale -- he crossed a line drawn by the Jews themselves who claim to hold a monopoly of that dreaded word. The mass killings in modern times, including the murder of some two million Cambodians in 1975-1979 and about 800,000 Rwandans in 1994, could never be categorized as a "holocaust" because of the political taboo imposed by Jews. |
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Thoughts
from London |
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Flip side of Britain’s human rights coin |
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By Neville de Silva |
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 While Britain’s foreign minister overseeing Asia, Lord Malloch-Brown was giving the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva a lesson in human rights in Sri Lanka, not too far away in Strasbourg, the British had already been taught an even more profound a lesson. Whether Malloch-Brown, sometimes derisively called Bullock-Brown for conduct akin to a ...... |
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Lobby |
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13th Vs 17th: The rising toll |
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By Chandani Kirinde, Our
Lobby Correspondent |
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 The Government now wants to fully implement the 13th Amendment so that more powers can be devolved to the provinces, the JVP does not want that but wants the 17th Amendment fully implemented by way of appointment of the Constitutional Council (CC), while the UNP wants both these amendments implemented. |
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