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July 1, 2011 · 7:13 am

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Basil Fernando’s Passionate Criticism of Creeping Dictatorship in Lanka

SRI LANKA: The banality of evil, a rejoinder to Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka (in Sinhala)

Basil Fernando, of Human Rights Asia

SEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B94IK2KrRlE

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Thuppahi's Blog · This web site presents the interventions of MICHAEL ROBERTS in the public realm with reference to Sri Lankan political affairs. It will embrace the politics of cricket as well. ROBERTS was educated at St. Aloysius College in Galle and the universities of Peradeniya and Oxford. He taught History at Peradeniya University and Anthropology at Adelaide university. He is now retired and lives in Adelaide.

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