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the race begins from monday...

Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, in a booklet released today containing what he called a 25 year policy plan for the country, has suggested setting up of an Executive Prime Minister Post, a President who is responsible for safeguarding the Constitution and a clean political system and also setting up of a State Assembly that will formulate national policies.

He also suggested holding the general election, election of the Executive Prime Minister, provincial polls and local government polls on a single day.

best wishes....you have made your decision...true, to the fearless leader you are known to be...

best wishes for many happy returns....

farewell dear friend...
with best wishes in what you do...
though we stand either side on the divide....
as we never thought we would...,
you know where i a stand...
and also that its not out of nothing for you...
but for its where loyal i shall always be...
we maybe on sides of the divide...
but our `history` for each other will never ever die...

let the games begin....

await an update after 2 pm today here in SF`s page on the latest...

the president is not in a position to heed to his demands...which no sensible president can...

so its over...

http://www.lankadeepa.lk/

Asserting that Mahinda Rajapakse regime is the darkest, the most brutal and the most ruthless, that has ruled Sri Lanka, Mangala Samaraweera, the convenor SLFP (M), in an interview published in this weekend Sunday Leader, said that he will seek an appointment with the US State Department and the incoming Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, to offer evidence related to human rights violations committed by Gotabaya [Rajapakse] and Basil Rajapakse as well as Sarath Fonseka The US must deal with these people. They have an obligation to deal with them.

The new UNP led coalition comprising 12 political parties was formed at the Parliament premises today with the signing of the agreement. The coalition includes the SLMC, Democratic Peoples Front and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Mahajana Wing.

I write to you at an important time when you are on the threshold of a new beginning in life. You are today being moved to the familiar surroundings of your former home, or very close to it. I am aware that the sufferings your family have undergone are many, and for very long too. These hardships were imposed on you and all other Tamil citizens who have suffered alike, by a ruthless organization that was committed to terror to achieve its narrow objectives, for which the Tamil people were made unwilling pawns.

In their petty geopolitical and corporate interests, India and the West have created a Frankenstein monster of a state in Sri Lanka that disgraces the whole world. What fears them now is this monster in its frenzies making their labours lost in the island. This is what impels them to tell the victims to reconcile, not to anger the monster and not to say genocide even when it takes place for decades. A general excuse they come out with is that the present world has no appetite for new nation states. Colombo makes the best use of this weakness. No justifiable norm of polity could be seen in why India and the West should labour so hard to uphold a united Sri Lanka and to appease it beyond all limits, writes TamilNet political commentator in Colombo.

in the post prbhakaran scenario,its now safe to reveal there were several attacks on the security forces...

the most serious of which was,what took place in mannar where a serious fire fight took place with a group of ltte cadres in land and sea in a failed effort of a group which attempted to make a landing on the mannr coast.there were a few attacks on forces personal in some other parts and several attacks took place in idp camps.all attacks were kept media shy fr obvious reasons.

an estimated 1700 odd ltte cadres are believed to be present in the jungles and the eastern leader col ram`s surrender plan was changed in the last minute following the killing of 11 of his cadres upon which he made his escape.

caught...

HE left for Egypt with lots of plans for post war reconstruction to be discussed on the lines of the NA summit...

the IC is expected to,for the first time since the ending of the war,hold extensive deliberation on post war reconstruction of sri lanka with the northern vansanthan programme...