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India should have sent its troops back to Sri Lanka to kill or capture Prabakaran and the LTTE leadership after the assassination of Rajiv
Monday, 2 April 2012 - 4:33 AM SL Time
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India should have sent its troops back to Sri Lanka to kill or capture Velupillai Prabakaran and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leadership after the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, says a new book by a former U.S. diplomat.
Rajiv Gandhi`s killing was an attack on India`s status as a regional power. Forcibly bringing Prabakaran to India to face trial would have sent a clear message to the region, and the world, that India would defend its political leaders from attack, defend its political system from intimidation and defend its primacy in South Asia against any challengers, the author says.
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In arms way: India`s `hollow` army to buy in bulk
Wednesday, 4 April 2012 - 1:55 PM SL Time
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As a recently-leaked letter scandal reveals the Indian army, one of the biggest in the world, is virtually naked , foreign weapons producers cast longing looks at the country`s never-shrinking military budget: over $100 billion to be spent by 2020.
India`s entire tank fleet is out of ammunition, air defenses are `97 per cent obsolete` and the elite forces are `woefully short` of `essential weapons,` reads a leaked letter Army Chief Vijay Kumar Singh sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in March.
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Sky blue Water lily named correct national flower
Thursday, 5 April 2012 - 9:01 AM SL Time
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By Ifham Nizam
The sky blue Water Lily, scientifically known as Nymphaea Nouchali, which is endemic to the country, has been named as the correct national flower of Sri Lanka.
The decision was taken yesterday by a committee of experts appointed, by Environment Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, to identify the genuine national flower, the Ministry`s Biodiversity Secretariat chief Ajith Silva told The Island.
He said that the plans are afoot to publish details along with the flower in all school textbooks following a recommendation by the committee.
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Goddess of Justice gasping for breath
Saturday, 7 April 2012 - 7:17 AM SL Time
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April 6, 2012, 7:53 pm
The CID`s failure to be present in Court when the case of the Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra killing was taken up on Wednesday has raised many an eyebrow. IGP N. K. Ilangakoon is reported to have ordered a probe into the serious lapse on the part of the police. But, people have lost faith in such investigations which usually draw a blank. His move has, in our book, the trappings of a red herring.
It is not the fate of the controversial political figures involved in the Kolonnawa clash that concerns us but a brazen effort by the police to strangulate the blindfolded Lady Justice struggling to hold the scales evenly. Premachandra`s daughter has lashed out at the CID for the deplorable manner in which it is handling the case.
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Typical Sri Lankans: Our unique Blue whales can boost tourism, but regulation needed
Monday, 9 April 2012 - 8:35 PM SL Time
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As marine biologists begin to learn more about the Blue whales resident in Sri Lanka`s waters, there is a need to regulate the whale watching industry that has spawned over the last few years as it is shaping up to be a considerable threat to the gentle giants. However, the biggest threat to the Blue whale population is ship strikes.
A public lecture on `Protecting the Giants of Our Ocean` was delivered by accomplished young marine biologist Ms. Asha de Vos, at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS) recently. Ms. de Vos leads the first major study of the unique Sri Lankan blue whale and is committed to scientifically understanding the population in order to protect them into the future.
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Abductors grilled me on party s future plans FSP Leader
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 - 4:50 AM SL Time
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By Shamindra Ferdinando
Leader of the newly formed Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), Australian national, Premakumar Gunaratnam who had been living in Australia under the false name, Noel Mudalige, was yesterday deported to Australia with the concurrence of the Australian High Commission in Colombo. He had walked into the Colombo Crime Division Headquarters at Dematagoda on Tuesday night, claiming that his abuductors had released him near that place.
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An enigmatic drama (with a happy ending)
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 - 9:47 AM SL Time
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Leader of the JVP rebel faction Kumar Gunaratnam, who mysteriously disappeared on Saturday, reappeared as an Australian citizen named Noel Mudalige yesterday!
Gunaratnam`s statement to the police, recorded in the presence of Australian High Commissioner in Colombo Robyn Mudie and another diplomat is as intriguing as his disappearance and reappearance. He has said that he was treated well in captivity. This is the first time a white van victim has returned alive to say something good about his abductors!
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Australian claims Sri Lankan agents sexually tortured him
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 - 2:00 PM SL Time
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THE Australian man abducted in Sri Lanka over the weekend has contradicted the claims of the Colombo government, claiming it abducted him, and were it not for Canberra`s intervention he would have faced certain death.
Premakumar Gunaratnam, a 42-year-old Sri Lankan left wing politician who moved to Australia in 2006, held a press conference at his house in Sydney`s north this afternoon, after leaving Sri Lanka yesterday.
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Kumar Gunaratnam AKA Wanninayake Mudiyanselage Daskon AKA Rathnayake Mudiyanselage Dayalal AKA Noel Mudalige made it to SBS
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 - 8:21 PM SL Time
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THE Sri Lankan-Australian political activist kidnapped in Colombo last Friday was dumped on the streets of the same city in the early hours of yesterday morning, before handing himself in to police.
Premakumar Gunaratnam, a former dual citizen who is reported to have been in Sri Lanka on an Australian passport under the name Noel Mudalige since September last year, has since been deported from the country, allegedly for breaching his visa conditions.
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The mystery behind abductions
Friday, 13 April 2012 - 10:18 AM SL Time
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The recent disappearance and re-appearance of two senior members of a new leftist party has opened up an already leaking can of worms in Sri Lanka.
The drama unfolded as Premkumar Gunaratnam and Dimuthu Attygalle claimed abduction and release by the government this week. The government, which is already facing trouble over political and non-political disappearances has been placed in the spotlight again.
But the shady past of Gunaratnam, who has killed Indian Peace Keeping Force soldiers and broke from prison in 1989 following a violent insurgency by the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party does not offer much credence to the allegations.
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How `NEWS` is made..
Saturday, 14 April 2012 - 9:31 AM SL Time
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LankaNewsWeb one of the most trustworthy news source on Sri Lanka reliably learns that `and Kugan are being held at the 6th floor of the Police Welfare building`
[http://lankanewsweb.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1714:lalith-and-kugan-at-the-police-welfare-building&catid=1:general&Itemid=29
Lalith and Kugan at the Police Welfare building
Two activists of the Movement for People`s Struggle, Lalith and Kugan are being held at the 6th floor of the Police Welfare building, it is reliably learnt.
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Kumar Guanaratnam our biggest publicity
Sunday, 15 April 2012 - 11:29 PM SL Time
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The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) says it has no need to stage a publicity gimmick and points the finger at the government for the abduction of two of its members.
Party Propaganda Secretary Pubudu Jayagoda in an interview with The Nation said more than 30 people were abducted within the last couple of months and alleged the government was behind these abductions.
Following are excerpts:
Q. You initially said that you would not form a political party and were working on forming a common left platform. What made you change?
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Sanga gagged by SLC despite Wisden accolades
Thursday, 19 April 2012 - 11:03 AM SL Time
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by Russell Palipane
`Roma locuta, causa finita`. (Rome has spoken, the case is closed).
Sri Lanka Cricket `supremo` (not Upali Dharmadasa), it seems, has issued a decree: Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara cannot talk to the media, even if the request emanates from the Editor of Wisden, Lawrence Booth!
Sri Lanka Cricket congratulated Kumar Sangakkara for being selected as both Wisden`s Leading International Cricketer in the World and one of its Five Cricketers of the Year, in the Almanack`s 149th edition published last week.
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Sanga gagged
Thursday, 19 April 2012 - 12:17 PM SL Time
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by Russell Palipane
`Roma locuta, causa finita`. (Rome has spoken, the case is closed).
Sri Lanka Cricket `supremo` (not Upali Dharmadasa), it seems, has issued a decree: Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara cannot talk to the media, even if the request emanates from the Editor of Wisden, Lawrence Booth!
Sri Lanka Cricket congratulated Kumar Sangakkara for being selected as both Wisden`s Leading International Cricketer in the World and one of its Five Cricketers of the Year, in the Almanack`s 149th edition published last week.
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San Cisco - Awkward
Sunday, 22 April 2012 - 7:18 PM SL Time
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San Cisco are from Fremantle West Australia.
(if you see a some odd green line at the top or odd shadows, YouTube is serving you the 3D video, either use 3D glasses or turn 3D off in the options)
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Imperialist Forces Defeats Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation
Monday, 23 April 2012 - 7:25 PM SL Time
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INDIA`S PENCHANT for a membership to the elite, international `clubs` that operate nuclear-powered submarines (SSN) and indigenously developed Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) is indeed laudable.
But it also connotes overreach a misplaced sense of priorities and the proclivity to largely ignore the indigenous development of basic, operationally vital armaments and ammunition at a time when all three services especially the army were wrestling with bureaucratic red tape and corruption scandals to modernise and upgrade most of their ageing assets.
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Mystery Surrounds UNDP Allegations
Sunday, 29 April 2012 - 4:19 PM SL Time
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By Dinouk Colombage
The mystery surrounding claims made by Allan Poston, the technical advisor for the UN Development Program`s(UNDP) mine action, that unexploded cluster bombs had been discovered in the North, deepened with the UNDP head office in New York saying it has not received an official report on the claims.
Sandra Macharia, communications specialist for the Asia and the Pacific region, told The Sunday Leader that the UNDP had seen the article reported in the Associated Press but they have not received an official report from the UNDP office in Colombo on the matter.
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