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Written on 11 Dec, 2010 at 19:36 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
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| The Chandrika Kumaratunga government dealt adroitly with foreign nations about violation of human rights here under the able guidance of Lakshman Kadirgamar and that perhaps was the reason why the banning of the LTTE came about in most Western countries. - File Image: Former President Mrs. Kumaratunga Continue reading President holds key to turning world opinion rroundWritten on 6 Dec, 2010 at 21:51 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far  by Jehan Perera (December 07, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The events that occurred during President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s recent visit to the United Kingdom ought to serve as an early warning to the Sri Lankan government. There is a negative portrayal about the situation in Sri Lanka that is growing especially in the Western world as well as... Continue reading Whose reality in Sri Lanka?Written on 1 Dec, 2010 at 7:05 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far No one will deny that Sri Lanka has experienced dramatic changes over the past 18 months. The military defeat of the LTTE came as a surprise to many defence and security analysts, including myself. But the issues that gave rise to the vicious rebellion – and in some ways provided it with the fuel to persist and expand – have basically remained untouched. Even the former General and Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, Sarath Fonseka (now controversially imprisoned) believed... Iran exports $520m technical services to Sri LankaWritten on 8 Nov, 2010 at 9:53 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far TEHRAN, Nov. 8 (MNA) – Iran carried out $520 million of technical and engineering services in Sri Lanka, the Iranian Commerce Minister Mehdi Ghazanfari said here on Monday.... From WikiLeaks to WikiLanka: War Is Definitely Savage Though “Accusations” DifferWritten on 24 Oct, 2010 at 10:54 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
The latest WikiLeaks “dump” of around 400,000 US classified war reports on Iraq from 2003 to 2009, the biggest “war leaks” ever in US history, reveals how inhuman and savage the war is, never mind who conducts it and where. A few months ago in July this year, WikiLeaks’ first dump of over 90,000 US... Rhyme, Reason, & Realism in Tamil PoliticsWritten on 12 Oct, 2010 at 16:07 in Against Tamileelam, English | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka "In Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, the Congo, Iran, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka, the CIA armed and encouraged ethnic minorities to rise up and fight." - John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976(The Secret Wars of the CIA, October 1987) As far as Tamil politics go, intrinsically and as a sub-set of Sri Lankan politics, the touchstone is not the 18th but the 13th amendment. More: the dominant trend throughout the political history of Tamil nationalism... Govt. Request For Aid From Muslim CountriesWritten on 12 Oct, 2010 at 9:36 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiutheen says the government has requested aid from the Muslim countries to resettle the displaced Muslims in the country. Bathiudeen has said that he and Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa had explained to the ambassadors of several Muslim countries the circumstances under which more than 100,000 Muslims of the North became internally displaced. He has said ambassadors from Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, and Libya participated in the meeting. In 1990,... Unity Is Strength? No MoreWritten on 9 Oct, 2010 at 14:04 in Against Tamileelam, English, Sri Lanka | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far
Girls defeat Sri Lanka in Asian Junior Volleyball ChampionshipWritten on 15 Sep, 2010 at 8:28 in English, Searched News | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far (MNA), Sept. 15 -- Iran defeated Sri Lanka in the 15th Asian Junior Women’s Volleyball Championship in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on Wednesday.... Extreme position of appeasementWritten on 14 Sep, 2010 at 19:50 in English, Pro Tamileelam | viewed Please wait times and users have made 0 comments so far Sri Lanka sits at the crossroads of two significant contemporary geopolitical shifts. Firstly there is the rise and resurgence of China as a regional power; and secondly, many Western governments have lost their credibility in terms of morality, human rights advocacy and international law due to interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The SL government is masterful in its diplomacy and deals with a variety of governments, which are sometimes at odds e.g.: Iran & Israel, India & Pakistan, USA &... 
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