| Columns |
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| Political
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Political battles reach crucial point |
| Barely six months after Tiger guerrillas were defeated militarily; Sri Lanka's political landscape is fast changing. |
| 5th
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‘Conspiracies’ - oh, how welcome thy ploys! |
Thaaththa,” Bindu Udagedera asked, “is Sri Lanka a very important country?”
“Well,” Bindu’s father Percy said, “it is important to us but it is still a small country...”
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| The Economic Analysis |
| The economy minus GSP Plus |
| The critical current economic issue is whether we would lose the GSP Plus status and what its implications would be for the economy. The country has enjoyed this concession for several years. It has undoubtedly assisted the country’s industrial exports. |
| Lobby |
| Not issued with this week |
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| Focus on Rights |
| Asserting the accountability of governments |
| It is important in the current context of acute politicisation of human rights protections of the Sri Lankan people, to revisit some of the patterns of abuses that have occurred over the past several decades in this country. |
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