Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

Dear Friends,

I have come to the end of my LNP life. As I said before I am heading back to Sri Lanka tomorrow and I won`t be coming back for sometime and beside I will have more work and those who know personally know what it means.

Thanks for those who shared their comments and views in my space and had arguments sometimes. They all were warmly welcome. A very big thanks to MrBrown for providing this space to share my views with others.

As I always tell in this forum, my aspiration to our country is one Land for everyone to live in peace and harmony.

A Sri Lankan delegation comprising two ministers and officials of the Ceylon Petroleum Cooperation will visit Azerbaijan from August 16 to 18 to seek cooperation for oil exploration in Sri Lanka.

Minister of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Development A.H.M. Fawzie and Minister of Export Development and International Trade Prof. G.L. Peiris are expected to hold discussions with high-level officials of the Azerbaijan government including the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

Here are 22 practical Herbal Tips for Skin Care from the experts! Very easy to use and effective.

1) Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day.

2) Cut some beet root into small pieces and grind them. Squeeze juice from beet root and massage to your face for 5 minutes. Shower after 10 minutes with mild soap or gram flour.

3) Mix sandalwood powder with rose water and add 4 to 5 drops of milk in it and apply on to your face and body. Shower after 15 minutes with warm water.

4) Mix honey in water and drink daily in the morning to keep your skin shiny and smooth.

I have been writing a few articles pertaining to the mythical `Tamil Homeland` concept and so many views have been thrown at and none better than the following by a handle named `CholaPandyan`. Please read and decide!

`If you go back in history, Sri Lanka was divided into 3 countries with 3 kingdoms, and one of them was Tamil where the Tamils are the majority even today. This Tamil part (country) belongs to us, and we will never let a Sinhala to walk freely in our land without a valid visa`.

With Pri joining the `elite` club I thought I should dedicate something too.

Here I have found out the most Seniors of the LNP with the qualification to be 10,000 posts or more.

As rightly our very own AnuD is in pole position with 13,000 + against his name. The Most Senior Table looks like as follows

AnuD 13,000
TC 11,000
Marky 11,000
Berty 10,000
and
Pri 10,000

Congratulations for all of you for keeping the LNP active and running. I think Mr Brown will finally award you guys with a Doctorate subsequent to reaching 25,000 posts.

Many historians still think that the Second World War was Hitler`s personal war, and that he always intended to fight a war - as a re-run of a First World War he did not believe that German had lost fairly.

This drawing by the British Cartoonist (picture) David Low (20 March 1935) is titled `Cause comes before effect`. The cartoon shows Hitler`s armies marching past him - but at the front are politicians such as Chamberlain, Clemenceau, Laval and Mussolini, and they are saluting Hitler too. They have rolled up the Versailles Treaty and carry a flag saying `10 years of lost opportunity`. The message of the cartoon is that Hitler may be bringing war, but it is the politicians of France, Britain and Italy who are to blame - for letting him.

A young married woman (26), the mother of two was found hanging in her room at Gonahena, Kadawatha, when her husband was away last Friday. She had hanged herself with one of her sarees. About half an hour before she hanged herself, she had asked her two children to go out of the house and locked the door of the room.

When a cousin of the woman went to the house sometime later, he found the two children outside the house crying. When he went into the house and found the door of her room locked he had got on to a table a peeped into the room to see her hanging inside. He broke open the door and her body was taken to the Ragama Hospital by the Kadawatha Police

Social Services and Social Welfare Minister Douglas Devananda has made arrangements to set up Costal Protection Monitoring Committees in the Jaffna Peninsula to ensure the safety of fishermen in Jaffna, Social Services and Social Welfare Ministry Media Coordinator Nelson P. Edirisinghe said.

He said that Minister Devananda took this step after holding discussions with the fishing community in the Jaffna Peninsula. The Minister had consulted several fishing societies in Jaffna before taking the decision.

With her lips being fleshy and sexy Angelina Jolie is among the top women in the Hollywood.

Other notable ones are catherine-zeta Jones and my favourite innocent girl Keiral Knightley.

The other women are also not bad, I leave you to comment on them.

Myth: There is an ethnic problem in Sri Lanka

Reality:
The problem is the brutal Terrorism directed by the LTTE, popularly known as Tamil Tigers against the people especially the Sinhalese and the Sri Lankan state. An ethnic problem is fundamentally a social problem.

An ethnic problem exists when a majority ethnic group discriminates the minorities in the social and cultural sphere on the assumption that the majority is superior and the minorities are inferior in social and cultural terms. In Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese do not perceive them to be superior to the Tamils and Muslims but that they are culturally different. In the everyday life and in social cultural and economic interactions, there is no evidence of Sinhalese discriminating Tamils and Muslims.

Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka said the armed forces of Sri Lanka are ready to wipe out terrorists from Sri Lanka`s Northern Province in the same manner they wiped them out in the Eastern Province of the country.

?Our valiant forces are ready to wipe out the terrorists from the Northern Province like they did it in the East,? said the Prime Minister addressing a public meeting at Horana.

A similar statement was made by the Prime Minister in the parliament while he tabled a motion to extend the emergency, a day before, seeking the approval of the parliament to extend the emergency laws mainly meant to combat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) led separatist insurgency.

Bribes come in all sorts of guises. Money is only one of them. Instead of beating about the bush, the LTTE have got straight to the point. Through their political benefactor, Ranil Wickramasinghe. the Tigers have approached some members of the UNP whom they thought can be lured by blood soaked Tiger funds . This is where they made the mistake. (We find that there are still a few patriotic people left in the UNP too) That is why Minister Karu Jayasuriya told parliament what had transpired and how bribes of Rs.110 million each. were offered to two UNP(Democratic group) ministers to join the ranks of the opposition. He categorically stated that his group would never betray the nation and was intent in supporting the government which had taken meaningful steps to eradicate terrorism from Sri Lanka.

A Sri Lankan model displays a new creation of ladies wear during a fashion show in Colombo on Sunday, Aug 12, 2007.

Tamil Separatists are attempting to re-write the history of Sri Lanka by claiming the existence of a Tamil Homeland in ancient Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has a recorded history of over 2,500 years, but no where in this history is there a mention of a Tamil Homeland. Many archaeological finds have been made in Sri Lanka, dating back to over 3,000 years, but not a single find points to the existence of a Tamil Homeland. Yet the Tamil separatists who are waging a bloody terrorist campaign in Sri Lanka are attempting justify their terrorists acts by claiming to fight for this mythical homeland. So what is Tamil Eelam and where is this `Tamil Homeland?`

Sri Lanka has 9 provinces and 25 districts. As the top picture shows all 9 provinces are drawn and in comparison to the other one which the Tamil separatists vying for a separate state does not ONLY include North and East as the so-called `Tamil Eelam` but parts of the North Western Province, Uva Province and Southern Province.

This shows that the Tamil Separatists not only invading the country Sri Lanka`s NE with majority of Tamils but a significant area of majority Sinhalese too. What if the Muslims claim parts of Western Province and the upcountry Tamils claim they too want a part of Central Province? Where do the rest live?