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		<title>TNA ups the ante; demands finance too now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As prerequisites to sit on the proposed PSC The Tamil National Alliance yesterday insisted that land, police and finance powers be included in the devolution discussions with the government and all three had to be prerequisite for the party to sit on the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee to hammer out a final solution. &#8220;We initiated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39606&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President in Polonnaruwa:Home-grown solutions to Lanka’s issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Stand united to achieve equity’ ‘In finding solutions to whatever issues the country faces, the government would always look for home-grown methods, that meet the aspirations and needs of the people, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. He said that solutions to country’s problems should come from within based on dialogue and understanding and stressed that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39602&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mahathma Gandhi remembered</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Wijenayake The 64th death anniversary of an exceptional spiritual leader, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation, popularly known as ‘Mahathma Gandhi’ (Great soul) falls today, January 30th, 2012. Gandhi, who led the Indian nationalist movement against British rule up to its victory and whose doctrine was non-violence protest to achieve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39593&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Branding Sri Lanka: Thinking Sri Lankan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shenali Waduge When Sri Lanka united to celebrate the defeat of 30 years of terror, the world ridiculed the way people of all ethnic groups and political parties joined the jubilation to celebrate freedom from terror. The world told Sri Lanka not to indulge in “triumphalism” and people were made to feel it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39586&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind a façade of patriotism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has launched a propaganda blitzkrieg against some foreign-backed elements accused of masquerading as human rights activists to promote a war crimes probe against this country. Regrettably, it has done precious little to improve its human rights record. What it has chosen to do is like blaming mosquitoes for spreading dengue, without eradicating their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39598&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misspoken, Mistaken, and Misunderstood 13th Plus ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gomin Dayasri. The recent utterances attributed to the Government display its indecisiveness on the 13th Amendment and its incapacity to rectify a miscommunication, which caused a misinterpretation that led to a misunderstanding. The selection of a faulty phrase in the course of a discussion was pounced on by the Indian Foreign Minister Krishna to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39558&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After Occupy Wall Street crack down: United States falls to 47th in press freedom rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweeping protests around the world made it an extremely difficult year for the media, and tested journalists as never before, the annual report into press freedom reveals. The annual report by Reporters Without Borders has been released, showing the United States fell 27 points on the list due to the many arrests of journalists covering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39582&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lankan appointed to top IMF post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharmini Coorey, a Sri Lankan national who has worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 1986, was this week appointed to a top post as the head of the new IMF Institute. In a statement the Fund said the new department is focused on helping member states build capacity and develop their key economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39578&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhist meditation centre destroyed by settlers in Belaichari</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The settlers have reportedly attacked a meditation centre run by Triratna Bhikkhu Association in Belaichari under Rangamati district. The incident took place in the morning today, Saturday, sources said, adding that the settlers also ransacked and looted a Jumma house. Read more<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39567&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Historic Injustice&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Response to Nihal Jayawickreme’s article in the Sunday Island of 15.1.2012 By S.L. Gunasekara I read with interest, Nihal Jayawickreme’s article about the statements in my book Lore of the Law and Other Memories about the historic injustice that was perpetrated on T S Fernando and the rectification of that injustice which brought T [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39562&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Jaffna Tamil leadership fit to handle increased powers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By H. L. D. Mahindapala In April 2008 when the Security Forces were inching their way up the western coast and advancing towards the Madhu Church – a sanctuary of the Catholic Church for the Tiger “boys” — Bishop Joseph Ryappah, the prominent LTTE agent in the Catholic Church, did the unthinkable: he hijacked the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39554&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhists under Threat in South Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL — At Jogye Temple, normally an island of Buddhist serenity, plainclothes officers have staked out the exits, waiting to grab any fugitives who venture out. Camped out on the temple grounds are the leaders of fierce anti-government protests who have been charged with instigating violence. They have come to the temple seeking political sanctuary, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39574&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SRI LANKA MUST TAKE FIJI AS AN EXAMPLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BE FIRM AS FIJI By Stanley Perera, Melbourne Colonial masters introduced Indian Tamils from Tamil Nadu to Fiji as Coolies and sugar cane plantation labourers in same manner as Colonial masters introducing Coolies and Tea and Rubber plantation labourers in Ceylon.  Today in Sri Lanka the Tamil population in Sri Lanka is less than 10% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39570&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TUCS orders Lankan goods off shelves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Triplicane Urban Cooperative Society (TUCS), the oldest and largest in TN, has removed Sri Lankan biscuits from the shelves of its chain of stores and PDS shops following a protest by a little-known Tamil outfit. Special officer R.G. Sakthi Saravanan issued the order effective immediately after receiving a petition from two members of Boycott Sri [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39548&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More supportive approach to Sri Lanka needed-EU group</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Brussels &#8211; 26 January 2012) MEPs from many different European countries and political parties, as well as EU officials from the Commission and External Action Service and other involved individuals, met in the European Parliament yesterday for a roundtable discussion on recent developments in Sri Lanka. Discussions focused on the recent ‘Lessons Learned and Reconciliation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39545&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GoSL under pressure to allow poaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty six TN fishermen, eight boats freed in Jan. The government is under heavy Indian pressure to turn a blind eye to poaching by the Tamil Nadu fishing fleet not only in the Palk Bay but in Sri Lanka’s eastern territorial waters as well. India strongly opposes those arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39540&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TNA welcomes international mediation for future negotiations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the backdrop of a deadlock in talks between the government and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the TNA said yesterday that they would welcome an international mediation at this time to facilitate future negotiations. At a recent meeting with Dr. Alyssa Ayres, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian affairs, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39537&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A senior official in the Canadian Defence Ministry speaks of Sri Lanka’s Tamil separatist conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to Hon. Peter MacKay, MP, PC, Minister of National Defence, House of Commons, Ottawa by Asoka Weerasinghe, Canada. Re: A senior official in Defence Minister Peter MacKay’s office told The Canadian Press …The LTTE had fought for an independent Tamil homeland since 1983. This is amazing stuff coming out of your office.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39534&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call for re-opening ‘Prem Nivasa’ case</title>
		<link>http://sinhale.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/call-for-re-opening-prem-nivasa-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Janaka Perera Have all doubts about the case involving Blessed Teresa’s Home, ‘Prem Nivasa’ run by the Missionaries of Charity at Rawatawatte Moratuwa in Sri Lanka been cleared? According to the Patriotic Bhikku Front, Chinthana Parshadaya and Sinhala Bauddhayo the speed in which the investigations were supposedly completed has given cause to strong suspicions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39529&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Activists to fight UN bid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACTIVISTS uniting around the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal tent embassy have vowed to wage an international campaign against Australia&#8217;s bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council if the Gillard government does not meet its demands for indigenous sovereignty. The campaign is being spearheaded by Michael Anderson, 60, the only one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sinhale.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2231741&amp;post=39523&amp;subd=sinhale&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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