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UN panel: Diplomatic tunnel after tunnel
In the large screen, visuals bared men and women, some young and the others old, gyrating aimlessly. The music for this vulgar display was Sri Lanka's national anthem. The occasion was the annual sessions of the United National Party (UNP) at Siri Kotha in Kotte last Sunday.
5th Column

May be you could go up in flames!

“Thaatha,” Bindu Udagedera asked, “what will happen to the Greens now?”
“Why, Bindu, they will continue to remain in the opposition…” Bindu’s father Percy explained.
“But thaaththa,” Bindu said, “they held this special meeting last week and now they are saying all their problems are over…”
The Economic Analysis
2010: A year of economic recovery and growth
Foreign investments and aid to reconstruct the North and East and resettle displaced persons are important for the country’s economic development. The expectations of large inflows of foreign investment after the ending of the war do not appear to have materialized to the extent that was expected.
Lobby
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Focus on Rights
Reconciliation for another generation
In a crowded courtroom in Vavuniya, there is a moment of ecstasy when detainees who had surrendered in the final months of fighting between the government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are allowed to mingle with their families for a shot while before being segregated to stand at attention when their cases are called.
Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Norway's tough letter to Prabha not shown to CBK

Norway did not wish to give former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga a copy of a confidential letter it wrote to Velupillai Prabhakaran, the late leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), during the ceasefire period.
From the sidelines
The UNSG Panel, the diaspora and “a blinding case of clientitis”
The graphically descriptive phrase in quotes is borrowed from a WikiLeaks cable from former US ambassador Robert O’Blake to the US State Dept. In it he describes the selective ‘blindness’ of certain INGOs operating in Tigerland before the war’s end. It describes in detail the modus operandi used by the Tigers to hijack INGO dollars and euros sent to Sri Lanka for relief purposes in the Wanni, channelling them through the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) to Tiger coffers.
Column By Gomin Dayasiri
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