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Who is Irangani de Silva??

Was expat behind Bob Rae's woes?
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/649649

Days before Rae was turned away at Colombo's main airport late Tuesday night, allegedly for his sympathies toward the Tamil Tiger separatists, Irangani de Silva had one of the many articles and letters she has written targeting politicians and officials around the world published in The Island, a prominent Sri Lankan newspaper.

The June 8 opinion piece is an appeal urging Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona to rip up a visa granting Rae entry to Sri Lanka from June 10 to 12 because his report back to Canada would surely tarnish the country's image.

A closer look at her public comments and associations over the last few years show de Silva is an influential member of a global alliance of expatriates that urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a January news conference in Colombo to freeze the funds of any groups questioning the country's sovereignty or advocating a power-sharing deal with the Tamil Tigers.

She is former president of the Sri Lanka United National Association of Canada (SLUNA) and in frequent contact with senior officials at the country's Toronto consulate.

The whole of THAMILEELAM,I own, togeather with 3 million Tamils of Eelam.
Now my land is occupied by the sinhala Nazi cowards of the pariah state of singlam,with the help of the Pariah state of the Hindians.
When we liberate our Homeland ,I'll be ownig lands in my revered soil.

Ind: 153/7 (20.0 Ovs)

153 is a good score for india considering that they were at 30/3 in 6 0vers...

Now indian Bowlers have to rise to occasion.

Dhoni wasted lotta balls. He should have let Pathan in.

'The poor conditions in the camps may worsen with the monsoon rains,'

Sri Lanka promised UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon during his visit to the island last month that most of the civilians will be re-settled in their homes and villages within six months.

The island's government has promised to resettle those in the camps by the end of the year, once it weeds out suspected rebels.

Hope the dressing room has enough Viagra... )