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Political
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Prorogation coming next month |
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By Our Political Editor |
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 For most Sri Lankan parliamentarians, both in the Government and in the Opposition, it is migratory season. With the bickering over a lengthy budget debate now over, they have spread out to various parts of the world on holiday. |
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5th
Column |
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Please Santa, let’s have more of everything.... |
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By Rypvanwinkle |
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My Dear Santa Claus,
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Situation
Report |
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Seasonal lull prelude to New Year battles |
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By Iqbal Athas |
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 With the New Year only eight days away, the customary lull has returned to the battlefields of the North and East.
In terms of both the military and the Tiger guerrilla calendar, the more than two decades of war has not seen any major encounters during the Christmas and New Year season. |
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The
Economic Analysis |
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Festivities for the few, hardships for the many |
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By the Economist |
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 The soaring prices that characterised 2007 appear to have little impact on crowds shopping in Colombo. Despite the inflation that is encompassing the country there appears to be brisk shopping and preparations for expensive entertainment. |
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Thoughts
from London |
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Diplomacy that conveniently omits ethics |
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By Neville de Silva |
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Departing British High Commissioner Dominic Chilcott’s Dudley Senanayake memorial lecture earlier this month roused contrary responses from the Sri Lankan public. Some strongly supported Chilcott’s criticisms of Sri Lanka’s style of governance, the corruption that seems embedded in the country’s politics and the deteriorating standards of political conduct. |
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Issue
of the week |
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Not issued with this week issue |
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By Ameen Izzadeen |
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Focus
on Rights |
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Women's demands for justice in Sri Lanka |
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By Kishali Pinto
Jayawardena |
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Securing justice for women whose lives have been destroyed by conflict is an insuperably difficult question in Sri Lanka. The tactic resorted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in using women as suicide bombers following thorough mental and physical indoctrination, has resulted in women of Tamil ethnicity being placed in the centre of the storm as it were. |
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Lobby |
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Not issued 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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Fixation or friction? UN’s battle with Sri Lanka |
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By Thalif Deen at the united nations |
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 When a senior UN official addressed a recent news conference on human rights violations worldwide, a reporter asked him about the incarceration of a UN human rights official, Sigma Huda, by the military-run government in Bangladesh.
A native of Bangladesh and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons,..... |
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Telescope |
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Washington's curb on military aid: What justifies war? |
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By J.S. Tissainayagam |
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 An Associated Press report said that the Appropriation Bill for 2008 of the United States' Federal Government was withholding military aid to Sri Lanka.
It said that despite certain shortcomings in their human rights records, allocations in the bill for military aid to Indonesia and the Philippines had been substantially approved ..... |
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