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Posted By: youthvillage
Posted On: Feb 11, 2011
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OK, so I spoke to my colleague Khaled Hassouna who is on the ground in Egypt today. He had some very interesting thigns to say about the situation on the ground on this historic day. Check out his comments .
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Oct 1, 2008
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For all intents and purposes, the All Party Conference (APC), has been a waste of time by playing for time, all the time. Periodic boycotts and exits of parties based on their factional agendas have indirectly helped the procrastination, supported by the lack of political will and courage on the...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Aug 22, 2008
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Just as it did at the moment of decolonization and independence, the visible post-war moment provides a rare historic opportunity for nation building and the construction of national identity. We missed the first chance, but must not miss the second.
In his nationally televised dialogue with...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Aug 17, 2008
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When we were being initiated to English under the Free Education Scheme, our teacher used to ask us to, “Hurry up and go slowly.” This command made us laugh, for by then we knew enough English to see the seeming paradox.
Sixty years later, I do not laugh at the words any more. I...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Aug 12, 2008
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Lanka: Where to cut the Gordian knot
Sometimes the obvious is the most difficult to see; and then when discerned in a flash of blinding light it does indeed seem so obvious. Lanka will never, never ever, settle its national question, or its ethnic conflict if you prefer this terminology,...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Aug 12, 2008
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The devolution debate has been sharpened by the highly interesting and significant results of the public opinion poll recently conducted in Tamil Nadu, with regard to Sri Lanka’s ethnic issue and its internal arrangements.
The poll has had the effect of strengthening both pro and...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 30, 2008
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“The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew, cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down”.
- Barack Obama, Berlin, July 24
We must not settle for a draw in a game we can win and are winning. As we draw...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jul 26, 2008
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From my Diary Notes written in Cell No.1, Negombo Remand Prison, (July 31st-Sept 24th 1983)
I had my own gruesome experience of the Black July. It was 29th July at midnight that I received a telephone call from my friend and party comrade AJMO Dr. Indra Kumar of his father’s...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jun 30, 2008
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Rohan Edrisinha and Asanga Welikala
The Political Watch Column of the Sunday Island of 22 June titled Opposition at Sea included a critique of an article co-authored by us which was published on Groundviews (and in the Sunday Leader) sometime ago, in which we argued that if...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jun 18, 2008
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ROHAN EDRISINHA & ASANGA WELIKALA
The North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Councils have been dissolved by Proclamation of the respective Governors effective as of midnight on Monday 9 th May 2008 (see Gazette Extraordinary No. 1553/6 (North Central Province) and No. 1553/7...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: May 21, 2008
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As the much hard-sold elections to the Eastern Provincial Council came to an unseemly and acrimonious conclusion last week, it was already becoming abundantly clear that its political and constitutional ramifications may well turn out to be anything other than what the government’s...... [view]
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