Jaffna as I saw it

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We need quick fixes

To hell with long term policy and development I want my parippu and paang now and I want it cheap! Yes, Sri Lanka is recovering from a 30 year war and developing the north and east will ensure that we don’t screw the end game like the US does and keep doing. The south had the JVP and the north had the LTTE. Both preying on the hungry minds of the forgotten people whilst the western province enjoyed...
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Sri Lanka: Meeting the Western challenge

Although the war in Sri Lanka is now over, the battle for Sri Lanka’s future has only just begun. Notorious pro-LTTE lawyer Bruce Fein once told a conference by Max Foundation in Tamil Nadu in January this year that “We have the ears of Washington and National Press Club. The next Tamil Eelam war will be fought from the capitals of the western world under the leadership of Washington…….” Five...
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“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve” George Bernard Shaw Pic from SundayTimes.lk
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How the world forgets

This is what Fox History mentioned about the LTTE in the new program they are telecasting on International Terrorism “The Tamil Tigers are one of the deadliest and most ruthless terrorists organisations the world has ever known. Since embarking on their campaign of violence in the early 1980s, they have killed almost 60,000 people – more than the rest of the world’s terrorist organisations...
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Hambantota the new capital of Sri Lanka

This is what I searched today on Google when I heard it on the Radio. Surprisingly it was true as the Daily Mirror had an article. Either Minister Dulles is promising this to gain votes for the party before the election or if it is indeed true us Colombo dwellers can hope to live trouble free as all the politicians might move to the new capital! “Built over two hundred years ago the city of Colombo...
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An interesting point of view (IDPs in Sri Lanka)

An interesting viewpoint, which I thought might set the stage for a few comments!!! Is THIS what it is REALLY then, this whole issue of the IDP’s in camps? Silly me, and I was actually naïve enough to think that BOTH SIDES were actually discussing the pro’s and con’s of WHY the IDP’s couldn’t be re-located to their natural residences soon. Could it REALLY be that, IN FACT, what we (the Majority)...
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Make a wish for Sri Lanka

Visit www.makeawishforsrilanka.com and make your wish for the country
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UK guilty of locking up immigrant children

Sad as this seems it sounded funny as UK has been putting Sri Lanka under fire. Article from the Guardian Yarl's Wood: strongly criticised by the children's commissioner for England. Photograph: Dan Chung Ministers were facing accusations today that hundreds of children are being held unnecessarily in immigration detention centres as official figures revealed, for the first time, that 470...
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Sri Lanka Is Asia’s Best Performer – Bloomberg

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