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Month: March 2009

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Advocacy, Colombo, Human Rights, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

The farcical ‘National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights’ in Sri Lanka

Exactly a year ago today, a week before the Royal-Thomian, the journalist J.S. Tissainayagam went into the TID to enquire after his friends who had been taken in for questioning the previous…

Asanga Welikala Asanga Welikala on 03/08/2009
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

It’s not cricket

Lankapuvath, National News Agency of Sri Lanka Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, , 23 September 2008 Every time a highly placed individual from the Rajapakse administration says something offensive – which sadly occurs…

Groundviews Groundviews on 03/08/200903/08/2009
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, Media and Communications, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

None Other Than Mahinda Rajapaksha!

Lasantha Wickrematunga faced his last moments at an unusual time at an unusual place. From the moment he left home the day he was murdered, he was aware that he was being…

Uvindu Kurukulasuriya Uvindu Kurukulasuriya on 03/07/200903/08/2011
Colombo, Religion and faith

Bad Buddhists, Good Buddhists and True Buddhists

The purpose of this article is to discuss very briefly a few contemporary issues on preaching, interpretations and practices of the Lord Buddha’s teaching from an expatriate’s point of view. First of…

C A Saliya C A Saliya on 03/03/2009
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

What we do now will be remembered

The scene is reminiscent of a scene straight out of a movie. The scene is full of blood and gore. Except the zombies who are in the movies are not there and…

Laksundara Laksundara on 03/03/200903/02/2009
Disaster Management, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict

Calling a spade a spade: Michael Roberts’ ‘moral relativism’

Dear Sanjana, I am responding to Michael Roberts’ two articles , and since about half of article-B was devoted to the counter offensive aimed at Lionel Bopage and me, I do hope…

Kumar David Kumar David on 03/02/2009

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