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Sri Lanka sets date for first post-war polls
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Spetsnaz1
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 		LK Information  25 Jun 2009 23:40:20 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Sri Lanka on August 8 will hold elections for the first time since declaring victory over the Tamil Tigers last month, the government said on Thursday.

The local government polls will take place in Jaffna and Vavuniya, two cities that were at the periphery of the territory controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for most of the 25-year separatist war.

slap on the LTTEs face... either ways it will be pretty interesting to see what parties will actually contest leaving out the main parties...:))
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 		LK Information  25 Jun 2009 23:46:22 GMT  Report for Abuse  
This was the actual Slap :)
The nomination lists of two main minority parties, Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) headed by V. Anandasangaree and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) for Northern polls have been rejected by the respective Retaining Officers.
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 		LK Information  25 Jun 2009 23:47:31 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Singer Michael Jackson dead at 50
Legendary pop star had been preparing for London comeback tour
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 		LK Information  25 Jun 2009 23:55:13 GMT  Report for Abuse  
as 13th amendment is going to stay, some of the provincial councils should be dissolved and amalgamated to make maximum of 05 provincial councils.


North and east pc can be amalgamated into one pc as per you suggestion :)
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 		LK Information  25 Jun 2009 23:59:16 GMT  Report for Abuse  
No one listens to AnuD anymore. :)
Sri Lankan delegation assured to implement new proposal which would be an advance on the 13th Amendment -Indian foreign minister
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 		LK Information  26 Jun 2009 00:00:40 GMT  Report for Abuse  
This was the actual Slap :)

No Eelam!


ROFL...
whatta fagot... :o)))
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 		LK Information  26 Jun 2009 00:04:47 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Press council - employees were getting salaries, rented office space rent availalbe through out but press council was not operating.

WHO DOES NOT LIKE IT ?

Paris based JOURNALISTS WITHOUT BOARDERS

The Press Council was staffed with government appointees. It had the authority to hear complaints about inaccurate reporting or defamation and fine and jail journalists if found guilty. It ceased operations in 2002, after it was criticized as an anti-democratic tool to suppress criticism of the government.

The government says it reactivated the body after a parliament committee found that council salaries were still being paid and office space was still being rented. Minister Abeywardena says the media has nothing to fear, and it has no intention of gagging the press or imposing restrictions on it.

But the move to restore the Press Council has provoked concern among journalists in Sri Lanka.

Seven media bodies, headed by the Editors Guild, have in a joint statement to President Mahinda Rajapakse, saying that a media culture cannot be based on placing charges against journalists, fining them or sending them to jail.

Vincent Borsell of the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders calls the decision to restore the Press Council another step to suppress the independent media.
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 		LK Information  26 Jun 2009 00:18:32 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Michael J died, the end of one of the greatest music legends of our times. Sad to see the sudden death at this young age, around just 50.
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 		LK Information  26 Jun 2009 00:29:32 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Members are doing well and posting a lot on MJ.
Still no any main thread came...!
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 		LK Information  26 Jun 2009 00:49:21 GMT  Report for Abuse  
Still no any main thread came...!


I also thought. He was a Great singer.

HE was unique.
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