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OWN Goal By The KING & his entourage of 100? - No one else to Blame other than the Modaya Team of 100 - The The Sri Lankan Embassy in London for the Ill fated Unwanted arrogant Visit to Speak at the OUSU?
Friday, 3 December 2010 - 2:12 PM SL Time

The Sri Lanka government says that protesters in the United Kingdom threatened freedom of expression.


Tamils called for the arrest of the president
In an apparent effort to counter number of allegations that are appearing in the British media in recent days about the war crimes in addition to give government`s response to the last minute cancellation of the president`s address at a leading debating union, G L Peiris spoke to journalists in a hurriedly convened press meet in London.

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Own Goal KINGS protest against the British Embassy in Colombo
Friday, 3 December 2010 - 4:36 PM SL Time

Hundreds of ruling party activists demonstrated at the British embassy in Colombo Friday to denounce Oxford University`s debating society for cancelling a talk by President Mahinda Rajapakse.

`Down with anti-Sri Lanka policy!` shouted activists led by Housing Minister Wimal Weerawansa, who spearheaded protests against the United Nations in July that temporarily shut the agency`s offices.

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Dr Silva ready to treat the White Folks - Well British High Commission is under his Nose - Why cant he start there? Yet More Own Goals to be Scored by the KINGS
Saturday, 4 December 2010 - 6:45 PM SL Time

Minister Mervyn Silva stated that he invites all the white folks `Suddo` in the world to come to Sri Lanka and learn about the `Mahinda Chinthanaya`.

He says that he will educate all Englishmen from the highest officers to the lowest on Mahinda Chinthanaya and will advise them to follow it.

Attending the inauguration of the `Dr. Mervyn Silva Challenge Trophy, Bicycle Tour` earlier today (December 03) he expressed that even though Britain is incapable of providing security to a leader of a country, if they come to Sri Lanka at any given time they would be able to complete all their affairs and return back safely.

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It is clear that the World is growing impatient with Sri Lanka - Karu
Sunday, 5 December 2010 - 9:29 AM SL Time

UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya yesterday urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa to investigate human rights allegations leveled against the country during Eelam War IV. He said last week`s protests directed at President Rajapaksa during his visit to London underscored the need to investigate war crimes allegations as part of Sri Lanka`s approach to normalize its relations with the West and Tamil Diaspora.

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Azem Premji India`s 3rd riches Man donates 1.27bn pound sterling to a charity providing education to the rural children in India - Good example set by this Great Muslim
Sunday, 5 December 2010 - 3:38 PM SL Time

One of India`s richest men has given 1.27bn to a charity providing education for underprivileged children in rural areas.

Azim Premji, the chairman of India`s third-largest software services exporter, Wipro, said he would transfer shares worth 88.46bn rupees to the Azim Premji Foundation, which he founded in 2001.

The Indian finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, said the pledge would send out a positive signal. `I welcome it. It`s a very good decision. I congratulate [him].`

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High Commission London Failed miserably - Liyanage
Monday, 6 December 2010 - 1:40 AM SL Time

The United Peoples` Freedom Alliance, in my view, reached its climax at the Parliamentary election held in April 2010. Since then although the UPFA government has been able to secure the support of more MPs to obtain two-third majority necessary for constitutional changes, it seems its support base is decreasing gradually. The cancellation of the scheduled address by President Rajapaksa at the Oxford University may be treated as the first major setback for President Rajapaksa and the UPFA government. It is likely that the UPFA will lose the control of a substantial number of local government councils at the forthcoming local government elections owing to the fact that the living standards of people have not proportionately increased although the economy has recorded a high rate of growth. As I still believe that I place myself within the UPFA mass base, this is an internal critique of the UPFA government, its policies and its administration.

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Wikileak confirms War Crimes committed by MR Bros & Fonseke
Monday, 6 December 2010 - 3:01 AM SL Time

The War Crime committed by the gvt is common knowledge - proofs are emerging slowly but surely and it is in the hands of international organisations!!!!


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Times Interview with Mahinda Rajapakse before he ran Back to Colombo
Monday, 6 December 2010 - 1:22 PM SL Time

The most telling moment in the Times interview with President Rajapakse of Sri Lanka came after it was over. For almost an hour , in a suite in the Dorchester, Mr Rajapakse has painted a picture of his government and country that was as white and spotless as his traditional garb any atrrocities at the culmination of Sri Lanka`s brutal war with Tamil separatists were the work of the terrorists videos allegedly showing army troops killing civilians were fakes war crime allegations were groundless the arrest and trial of his foremost political opponent was a matter for the judiciary and nothing to do with him.

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Sri Lanka Society wants to Kick out the Chairman of Oxford Union for cancelling the Speech by Mahinda - Lankans are Kicking Suddas backside Eh?
Monday, 6 December 2010 - 6:11 PM SL Time

The Oxford University Sri Lanka Society has called for the resignation of the Oxford Union President James Kingston following this week`s fiasco in which President Mahinda Rajapaksa was told he couldn`t address the Union to which he was invited, 24 hours before the event.

In a statement issued yesterday, the Society blamed Mr. Kingston for his `highly unbecoming` conduct in bowing to pressure and questioned his unilateral decision to cancel the address by President Rajapaksa.

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Politics in Sri Lanka becomes Dangerously COMIC - Meke Comedy Countryek?
Tuesday, 7 December 2010 - 4:35 PM SL Time

(December 05, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Last week`s episode relating to a scheduled talk at the Oxford Union by President Mahinda Rajapakse exposed how dangerously comical Sri Lankan politics has become. It was just a matter of a scheduled talk and its cancellation due to protests. A relatively minor incident, a non-event. However, this has been magnified to be an earth-shaking national event, requiring large rallies of protest in front of the British High Commissioner`s Office in Sri Lanka organized by the leaders in the government themselves.

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Wikileak Founder Assange Refused Bail in the Courts
Wednesday, 8 December 2010 - 12:45 AM SL Time

The founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been refused bail by a court in London but vowed to fight extradition to Sweden.

Mr Assange denies sexually assaulting two women in Sweden. He was remanded in custody pending a hearing next week.

A judge at City of Westminster Magistrates` Court refused bail because of the risk of the 39-year-old fleeing.

A Wikileaks spokesman said the arrest was an attack on media freedom and pledged to continue publishing.

After the court appearance Mr Assange`s lawyer Mark Stephens said he would be applying again for bail.

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RULE BY DECEPTION
Wednesday, 8 December 2010 - 12:57 PM SL Time

(December 07, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Rajapakse was forced to return home from his bitter trip to London in disgrace amidst real possibility of being arrested in the UK the first victim on whom the issuing of arrest warrant was imminent for alleged war crimes was one of the Major Generals who was in the President`s entourage. The criminal law set in motion by the British Tamil Forum (BTF) would have been a certain success if not for the leakage of information on the judicial process initiated by them, that allowed Presidential convoy hurriedly return home in one piece. Panic and fear psychosis experienced by the high profile delegation was such that they were forced to plead the British Government`s mercy for permission to take the aircraft of the Sri Lankan Air Line, all the way to terminal 5 from where the President boarded the aircraft avoiding confrontation with BTF.

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Natalie Time Lapse - A Fathers effort to photograph his daughter everyday from Birth to 10 years
Thursday, 9 December 2010 - 12:12 AM SL Time

Amazing video of a girl from Birth to 10 years - photos taken everyday!!!
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Karuna`s Group & DogClasses Group are responsible for the thuggery work with the approval of the Gvt - No wonder the ministers are now given luxury vehicles
Thursday, 9 December 2010 - 2:29 PM SL Time

The desire of ordinary womenfolk in the war affected areas to talk about their loss and grievances was more than obvious at the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) sessions in Trincomalee. Despite the heavy rains and the fact that many villages, including Thambalagamuwa and Kappathurei, had not received information about the LLRC sessions and venues hundreds gathered to give submissions at the first session held at Trincomalee Kachcheri.
Hearing the men and women who have travelled many miles to tell their personal tales of woe is a humbling experience for the society at large since it becomes more and more obvious that the most pressing immediate issues of these people have not being solved after more than 18 months since the end of Ealam War IV.

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Political Solution - The Only Way Forward
Saturday, 11 December 2010 - 3:22 PM SL Time

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj
Tamil National Alliance (TNA)leader, Rajavarothayam Sampanthan underwent heart surgery at a hospital in New Delhi on December 7th. The surgery according to TNA sources was successful and the veteran Tamil Parliamentarian from Trincomalee is likely to be discharged this week
The septuagenarian Sampanthan will not however be returning to Sri Lanka soon. Given his age and state of health, Sampanthan will be recuperating in Chennai with his family and not engage in active politics for quite a while.

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Can we feel Safe in a country where a 79 yr old granny is persecuted and prosecuted over the disappearance of her Grandson?
Sunday, 12 December 2010 - 6:30 PM SL Time

For almost an hour in a suite in the Dorchester, Mr. Rajapaksa had painted a picture of his government and country that was as white and spotless as his traditional garb .. His large entourage, ranged on sofas around the room, nodded in rapt agreement at every word the President said . The Times (2.12.2010)
There is madness in the air. Instead of making a sobre analysis of the Oxford debacle and deriving appropriate lessons, the regime is frenziedly lashing out at the opposition, dementedly searching for suitable `sacrificial victims` to propitiate the Jovian wrath of the President.

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I agree with the Mahinda & Weeramonkey - Tamils should not sing the present National Anthem - Not in Tamil Definitely not in Sinhalese or Not in English - It should be a different Anthem as Pirabaharan wanted.
Monday, 13 December 2010 - 8:19 PM SL Time

Minister of Housing and Construction, Wimal Weerawansa voiced his support towards the Cabinet decision to do away with the Tamil version of the National Anthem, branding this practice a joke.

He said that in no other country is the National Anthem sung in multiple languages including India where the National Anthem is only sung in Hindi despite the hundreds of languages been spoken in the country.

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Karuna says He Didnt Commit any Human Right Violations Just Like his Mate Mahinda - We Believe Both of Them - Tale of Two Crimi nals?
Monday, 13 December 2010 - 11:46 PM SL Time

Karuna Amman a former Tamil Tiger militant in Sri Lanka, now a government minister, has admitted that his comrades killed more than 600 policemen 20 years ago in the part of the country he then controlled as a Tiger leader.
Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, commonly known as Colonel Karuna Amman said, he was in a different part of Sri Lanka at the time. Testifying before a government-appointed commission looking at the Sri Lankan war, blamed Tiger`s leader and intelligence chief for killings.

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Red Cross and LTTE are One and the Same - Red Cross can smuggle someone and give them visas all over the World - Phew What a powerfull Organisation LTTE is worldwide - Breaking Wind News From Rajasingham(editor of AT)
Tuesday, 14 December 2010 - 1:38 AM SL Time

During and just after the last days of the war in May 2009, more than three dozens of hardcore LTTEers were helped to slip out of the Northern detention centers and smuggled out of Sri Lanka to Norway, France, and the United Kingdom.

Sources from Tamil diaspora also say that `some officials` based in Vavuniya Red Cross, assisted in the smuggling operation, but possibly involved in these activities on their own using the Red Cross cover.

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Lessons to Learn from UNP for Rajapakse - Daily Mirror Editorial
Tuesday, 14 December 2010 - 1:36 PM SL Time

The Mahinda Rajapaksa regime facing unprecedented international pressure over alleged human rights violations and failure to find a just political solution to the ethnic conflict needs to take a lesson from what happened in the main opposition United National Party (UNP) and especially at the UNP`s much awaited and highly controversial convention last Sunday.

Since 1978 especially the UNP constitution has been much like the all powerful executive presidential system with far too much power vested in one person. Now the main opposition party has come to terms with realities and has changed the constitution in a manner that the party leader and four top officials will need to be elected or re elected every year either through consensus or secret ballot.

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Assange Released on Bail
Wednesday, 15 December 2010 - 1:17 AM SL Time

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, arrested in Britain on Swedish allegations of sex crimes, was freed on bail by a British court today.

Judge Howard Riddle granted him bail with conditions until another hearing on Jan. 11.

The 39-year-old Australian, whose website has provoked U.S. fury by publishing some of a trove of 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic papers, was accused this year of sexual misconduct by two female Swedish WikiLeaks volunteers during a stay in Sweden.

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How they busted the Colombo Gym:)))
Wednesday, 15 December 2010 - 2:37 PM SL Time

After many attempts police were finally able to raid a well-patronized brothel after obtaining a warrant last Friday (December 10), to arrest the `madam` of this high end sex-worker facility which was operating at the Liberty Plaza shopping complex in Colombo.
Police said, This brothel employed sex workers from a number of countries and had also been patronized by top police officers in addition to parliamentarians and top executives. This prevented police from so much as visiting the spot in the past, let alone busting this operation . However, the raid has caused ripples in establishment circles and many of the police officers involved in the raid were now wondering what the outcome would be. The `madam` of the brothel who was overseas at the time of the raid has contacted her friends in high places and was attempting to carry on her trade and `fix` those who were involved in the raid.

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Manmohan & Karna Nidhi on the HIT list of Ghost LTTE - TN Police Chief Saran says he received a telephone call from Pirapaharan
Thursday, 16 December 2010 - 2:55 AM SL Time

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunandhi are on the hit-list of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Sources have told CNN-IBN that Intelligence Bureau has warned that LTTE might attack Singh and Karunanidhi when the Prime Minister visits Tamil Nadu in January 2011.The sources claim that some LTTE terrorists have entered India through the southern coast and are hiding in Tamil Nadu.Manmohan Singh is likely to be targeted by the LTTE so that the terrorist organisation can show that it is still active. Sources say there are many LTTE sympathisers in Tamil Nadu with some politicians in the state, too, having a soft corner for the organisation.

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Karuna Minister of resettlement says he Didnt Kill the 600 Policemen - He thinks they got lost in Baticaloe
Thursday, 16 December 2010 - 11:09 PM SL Time

Karuna before LLRC


by Harischandra Gunaratna


Deputy Minister of Resettlement Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan on Monday (Dec 13) said that there was no harm in Sinhalese settling down in the North in the post-war era. Testifying before the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), the former LTTE Commander recalled how those Sinhala families were forced leave their homes during the early stage of hostilities.

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HINDU WEDDING for Angelina & Brad Pitt in INDIA at Guru Ram Lalji Siyag`s Ashram not in a FIVE STar Hotel:)))))
Friday, 17 December 2010 - 12:13 AM SL Time

Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are planning to follow a showbusiness trend with
a Hindu wedding in India next year, it was claimed today.

The couple are believed to be considering a blessing in Jodhpur at a remote ashram, a religious retreat, known as Adhyatma Vigyan Satsang Kendra.

It is the sacred hermitage of Guru Ram Lalji Siyag, 83, who practises spiritual evolution and holistic healing there. A source close to him said: Pitt and Jolie will marry in the New Year and our guru will perform the ceremony.

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FOX HUNTED DESPITE THE LEGAN BAN IN THE UK - POOR FOX:(((((
Friday, 17 December 2010 - 3:43 PM SL Time

Poor Fox is running around trying to defy Foreign Sec Hague when he was warned to keep the distance from the KING because of all the war Crime alegations!!!!!


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Wikileaks revelation of the GOSL & its Paramilitaries - Guardian(UK)
Friday, 17 December 2010 - 4:55 PM SL Time

Friday, 18 May 2007, 09:22
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 06 COLOMBO 000728
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR SCA/INS
MCC FOR S GROFF, D TETER, D NASSIRY AND E BURKE
EO 12958 DECL: 05/18/2017
TAGS PGOV, PREL, PTER, PHUM, MOPS, CE
SUBJECT: SRI LANKA: GSL COMPLICITY IN PARAMILITARY
FACTIONS` HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
REF: A. COLOMBO 591 B. COLOMBO 561 C. COLOMBO 463 D. COLOMBO 460 E. 2006 COLOMBO 2056 F. 2006 COLOMBO 1896 G. 2005 COLOMBO 2157 H. 2004 COLOMBO 1219
Classified By: Ambassador Robert O. Blake, Jr., for reasons 1.4(b, d)

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No FOX so Mrs Kadir has cancelled the Kadir Memorial Speech - Lankan Gvt says traditional Sri Lankan Welcome like the one offered by Modawanse was awaiting FOX :)))
Friday, 17 December 2010 - 10:57 PM SL Time

The Sri Lankan Government had no opposition to the visit of British Defence Secretary Dr. Liam Fox and had made all arrangements to provide the necessary protocol assistance and facilitation during his visit, Ministry of External Affairs said.


We welcome all visiting foreign dignitaries with traditional Sri Lankan hospitality. Dr.Fox was to visit the country on a private invitation from the Board of Trustees of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Foundation External Affairs Ministry Director General of Public Communications Bandula Jayasekera said.

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London Freeze spreads to Lanka
Sunday, 19 December 2010 - 6:02 PM SL Time

Lanka-UK ties plunge to sub-zero level

Govt. refuses to release explosive Cameron letter
By Our Diplomatic Editor
The Government is refusing to release a letter sent by British Prime Minister David Cameron to President Mahinda Rajapaksa following the President`s second-term inauguration a month ago. This comes amidst reports that a private visit by British Defence Secretary Liam Fox this week was shot down at the eleventh hour due to pressure from the Tamil Diaspora in Britain and Dr. Fox`s Cabinet colleagues.

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Sinhala Only National Anthem - Brilliant Masterpiece by the King & Cronies
Sunday, 19 December 2010 - 7:59 PM SL Time

conquering hero who threatens to destroy the liberty of his homeland belongs to history, not myth .
Ren Girard (Violence and the Sacred)
The disturbingly inane proposal for a Sinhala-Only National Anthem has suffered (an ephemeral) setback, due to internal dissent. Still, it may return, as the proposal for presidential term-limit removal did (initially withdrawn due to internal opposition and subsequently reintroduced via the 18th Amendment). A resurrection is likely because the idea of a Sinhala-Only National Anthem is integral to the Ruling Family`s nation-building project aimed at moulding a Sinhala- supremacist and a Rajapaksa-supremacist Sri Lanka.

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Indian National Anthems and their meanings
Monday, 20 December 2010 - 12:23 AM SL Time

Vande Mataram (Bengali script: ব ন ্ দ ে ম া ত র ম ্ ‌ Devanagari: व न ् द े म ा त र म ् Vande Mā taram `I bow to thee, Mother`) is a poem in the 1882 novel Anandamatha by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay. It is written in a mixture of Bengali and Sanskrit.[1] It is a hymn to the goddess Durga, identified as the national personification of India. It came to be considered the `National Anthem of Bengal`,[2] and it played a part in the Indian independence movement, first sung in a political context by Rabindranath Tagore at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress[3]. In 1950, its first two verses were given the official status of `national song` of the Republic of India,[3] distinct from the national anthem of India Jana Gana Mana. Many Muslim organizations in India have declared fatwas against singing Vande Mataram, due to the song giving a notion of worshipping Mother India, which they consider to be shirk (idolatry).[4]

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We assalted the Students in Dehiwala and Stripped them Naked in Peradeniya - Minister SB Dissanayake - Another Thug in the Gvt
Monday, 20 December 2010 - 3:25 PM SL Time

December 19, 2010: We assaulted the protesting students at the Dehiwala Higher Technical Institute and chased them away leaving them only with their underwear and in Peradeniya, we stripped the fasting students naked and chased them away, said a beaming S. B. Dissanayake, Minister of Higher Education yesterday.

The minister made this statement attending a workshop held in Colombo yesterday on the theme `Preparing for a strategic plan to develop skills`, taking place for all institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Higher Education.

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Ambassodor Ariyasinghe speaks to the Friends of EU - Ariyasinghe also cries about EU support for LTTE - Paawam Da
Tuesday, 21 December 2010 - 12:07 AM SL Time

Sri Lankan Ambassador Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinath Ariyasinghe says an influential section of the European Parliament is collaborating with those seeking to discredit the country. Ambassador Ariyasinghe told The Island on Sunday (Dec. 19) that the LTTE rump and its overseas supporters were working overtime to undermine the government`s reconciliation efforts in the post-war era.

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UN Panel Has Wider Agenda? Fishy Fishy?
Friday, 24 December 2010 - 5:14 PM SL Time

The United Nations says that its Expert Panel would deal with other parties in addition to the LLRC. The Panel`s work is broader than simply dealing with the LLRC, Farhan Haq Acting Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-Genera said at a Media Briefing in New York yesterday.

Excerpt from the press briefing:

Question: Farhan, when the Secretary-General gave the last press conference here, he said that he was glad to announce that his Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka was going to be able to travel to Sri Lanka. And I`ve seen now this quote of yours maybe you can confirm it or deny that we can`t confirm if the Panel will travel to Sri Lanka or will meet the LLRC [Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission] in some other location . Is that What`s the Are they travelling there? Isn`t that sort of what he announced? And what led to this change?

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Lankan Gvt Calls Rahul Gandhi a Lier
Saturday, 25 December 2010 - 4:22 PM SL Time

The Sri Lankan government says there is absolutely no basis for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi`s criticism of the country`s rehabilitation, reconstruction and re-settlement efforts in the post-war era.

Citing latest available data regarding ongoing projects in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, senior government officials alleged that a recent statement attributed to Gandhi was nothing but a blatant lie.

Voicing concern over Sri Lankan government `not doing enough`` for the Tamils there, Gandhi on Wednesday (Dec.22) said he would ensure that they get justice.

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Prostitution in Sri Lanka on the Increase
Sunday, 26 December 2010 - 4:20 PM SL Time

There are around 200,000 prostitute seekers and around 40,000 prostitutes in the country, according to a survey, Dr. Sujatha Samarakoon attached to the AIDS prevention unit of the Health Ministry said..

She said that these figures are something that has to be seriously taken into account considering the fact that Sri Lanka is a small country, in spite of spreading of HIV/ AIDS in Sri Lanka being considered to be minimal.

She called those who suspect of their vulnerability to the deadly disease to get their blood tested as there are arrangements to get it done confidentially.

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Small Miracle Caught Between the Elephant & The Dragon ?
Sunday, 26 December 2010 - 7:06 PM SL Time

By Liam Halligan 10:00PM GMT 18 Dec 2010

`The dragon and the elephant should tango!` So said Wen Jiabao last week during a rare visit to India. The Chinese premier employed some uncharacteristically colourful language to convey an unusual idea that of Sino-Indian co-operation.

Relations between China and India have long been soured by bitter rivalry and mutual suspicion. Over the past few days, though, the two Asian powerhouses have cuddled up like a pair of giant pandas. This is a display of diplomatic affection that matters not least as it could have a significant impact on the shape of the global economy.

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TIGER BOGEY - ARE RAJAPEKSES USING TIGER BOGEY TO JUSTIFY ILLEGAL ACTS?
Sunday, 26 December 2010 - 11:23 PM SL Time

By Tisaranee Gunasekara
Colombo, 26 December (Asiantribune.com):
The war is won, has been won for one a half years. The Tiger is dead, and has been dead for one and a half years.

Why do the Rajapaksas resist accepting this reality? Why do they talk and act as if the Tiger is only hibernating, not dead, and the war is still on at some indefinable, invisible, intangible level? Why do they want to keep the Sinhala South entrapped in a universe of fear, seeing in every passing Tamil, the shadow of the Tiger?

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Mahawamse Minset
Monday, 27 December 2010 - 2:42 PM SL Time

Hello Friends
Compliments of the season to you all.
Several readers have been posting comments on this blog about various themes like the antiquity of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, the Mahavamsa, Lord Buddhas visits to Sri Lanka. This in turn has generated a heated and healthy discussion in this forum
None of these comments were in any way directly related to the topics of the articles under which they were posted. It was a parallel debate of sorts without any reference to the subject matter of the article. I allowed readers to engage in this parallel discourse because I did not want to curb their enthusiasm.

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Hall Mark of Stupidity and Arrogance Another killing by the Armed Men in Jaffna
Tuesday, 28 December 2010 - 11:57 AM SL Time

Armed men who arrived in a motorbike shot and killed 52-year-old Markandu Sivalingam, the deputy director of Education, Valikaamam Zone, Sunday night at his residence in Urumpiraay in Jaffna, sending shock waves across the education sector in Jaffna. The killing of a peaceful educationalist, who recently took up the post after serving at Koappaay Teachers Training College for a long time, has taken place when Sri Lankan military had maximum deployment in Jaffna as the SL Prime Minister was visiting the city on the occasion of a Tsunami remembrance event, forcing the Tamil students to sing Sri Lankan anthem in Sinhala. Mr. Sivalingam was shot at his chest around 10:30 p.m., Koappaay police said.

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Will Wickramabahu be shot like the Teacher & the Priest in Jaffna for simply living normal life - Welcome to Terrorist Country Sri Lanka
Tuesday, 28 December 2010 - 4:14 PM SL Time

New Left Front Leader Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne today lodged a complaint at the Human Rights Commission alleging that that he and his party members were attacked at the airport earlier this month after he arrived in the island from the UK.

Dr. Karunaratne said that his right as a Sri Lankan citizen to enter the country had been violated when he was assaulted on his return from the United Kingdom. I will pursue the matter further, he said.

The parliamentarian said that though he had complained to the authorities no action had been taken so far. I complained to the IGP and the DIG of the air port police, they agreed to provide me and my party members with security but they have done nothing so far, he said.

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Weeramonkey says singing National Anthem in Tamil is a Joke - I think the Tamils should stop singing the Anthem alltogether
Tuesday, 28 December 2010 - 9:17 PM SL Time

Tamil politicians in Sri Lanka have criticised a decision to make school children in the northern town of Jaffna sing the national anthem in Sinhala.

They say it is `totally wrong` to make people sing in Sinhala when people in the north and east mostly speak Tamil.

Earlier this month, a Tamil minister in the Sri Lankan cabinet denied reports that the Tamil version of the anthem had been abolished.

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ENGLAND retains Ashes
Wednesday, 29 December 2010 - 7:42 AM SL Time

At 11.53 am Melbourne time England retained the Ashes. A fifth Test remains in Sydney, and considerable gloss will be taken away if Australia level the series at 2-2, improbable though that is in their dishevelled state.
But, come what may, the object of England`s exercise has been achieved. England`s players leaped and combined in a delighted huddle. Seldom has a cricket campaign been conducted better than England`s this winter. It was England`s second innings victory of this series perhaps the most creditable of all their achievements here under Andrew Strauss`s captaincy. In the previous 30 years in Australia England had notched one.

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Armed Forces Are Responsible for the Cold Blooded Murder of Deputy Director of Education Mr Sivalingam - No Gvt Agent No Army Personnel No Dog Class seen at the Funeral. They are all in hiding and No news in the mainstream Media
Wednesday, 29 December 2010 - 3:15 PM SL Time

Sri Lankan forces occupying Jaffna planned the assassination of the Deputy Director of Education for Valikaamam, Mr. Markandu Sivalingam, on Sunday night, media sources in Jaffna said. We cannot keep quiet seeing such murders. If we do so, tomorrow even we will not remain. We have to mobilise ourselves very urgently, said Rev. Fr. Jesudas, the principal of St. Hendry`s College, I`lavaalai, speaking at the funeral of Mr. Sivalingam at Maruthanaamadam, Tuesday. It was attended by large number of students, teachers, principals and the public. But neither SL military officials, nor the officials of the provincial administration attended the funeral. On the day of his assassination there was the `disaster management` gala attended by SL prime minister forcing students to `sing` Sinhala anthem.

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SLFP Deputy President & Minister of Sri Lankan Gvt is a Big Big Liar - says Solheim - Ayyo Paawam Da
Wednesday, 29 December 2010 - 10:01 PM SL Time

Former Norwegian peace envoy Erik Solheim has rejected claims made by Minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman at the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) regarding Norway and the LTTE.

Minister Muralitharan had told the Commission recently that Norway gave the LTTE large amounts of money to purchase weapons during the ceasefire agreement in 2002 and that they had ulterior motives in pushing for a Cease Fire Agreement.

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US Congressman calls LTTE a Freedom Fighters and Sinhalese a Slave Drivers? What do you think Guys?
Thursday, 30 December 2010 - 12:12 PM SL Time

by Hassina Leelarathna
(December 29, Los Angeles, CA, Sri Lanka Guardian) Congressman Danny Davis (D-Illinois) who recently led a coterie of US lawmakers in urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to launch a probe into alleged rights violations by Sri Lanka in the final days of the war, was at it again, defending the Tamil Tigers as `freedom fighters,` comparing the Sinhalese majority to `slave owners,` and denying that the LTTE paid for his controversial 2005 trip to Sri Lanka although US prosecutors have established it as fact.

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Our Queen Becomes a Great Grand Mother:)))))
Thursday, 30 December 2010 - 9:12 PM SL Time

The Queen is `delighted` with the birth of her first great-grandchild - a baby girl. Skip related content
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Autumn and Peter Phillips` first child, whose name is yet to be confirmed, weighed 8lbs 8oz when she was born at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

A statement from Buckingham Palace read: `The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, Captain Mark Phillips and Autumn`s family have been informed and are delighted with the news.`

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BBC Banned Again
Friday, 31 December 2010 - 5:43 AM SL Time

he BBC has been banned for a third time from covering an official panel`s investigation into the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war.

The panel visited Tamil prisoners at a top-security jail in Boosa in the south of the country.

But the BBC correspondent and a number of Sri Lankan journalists were turned away at the prison gates.

The 26-year conflict ended in May last year with victory for government forces over the Tamil Tiger separatists.

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Is the Deputy President of SLFP still an Asset to the Gvt?
Friday, 31 December 2010 - 12:34 PM SL Time

by Shamindra Ferdinando

Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan aka Karuna strongly denies former US Ambassador in Colombo Robert Blake`s claim that he fled Sri Lanka and secured refuge in Tamil Nadu in early 2004 with the help of the then President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

`Ambassador Blake`s accusation is absurd,` the National List MP told The Island.

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Happy New Year to Mr B & All LNPers
Friday, 31 December 2010 - 5:52 PM SL Time

Lets hope New Year brings happiness wealth & Prosperity to All!!!
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