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Rosen: An American Rabbi’s Slashing Condemnation of Israeli Warring Atrocities
Rabbi Brant Rosen ONE: Brant Rosen, 24 September 2023 As a rabbi for a Chicago-based synagogue that holds a deep shared commitment to the struggle for Palestinian liberation, I am holding so much intensity and emotion right now. I am … Continue reading →
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Aid Across Flood Waters: Dr Enoka Guneratne on Duty
Current Affairs News Item,on Channel Nine, 5 July 2022, where the title reads “Doctor’s mercy dash across surging floodwaters to help patients” New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has warned that flooding across the state is far from over. More … Continue reading →
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Sri Lankan Military in Judicial Gunsights Over May 2009 Incidents
Groundviews, 14 March 2023, where the title reads “Military to Face a Day of Reckoning Over the Disappeared” In a landmark case last month, the Vavuniya High Court ordered the army to produce three LTTE members who had surrendered to … Continue reading →
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University Federation of Dons condemn Sri Lankan Government’s Actions
Item in The Island, 1 August 2022, where the title runs thus “Dons Condemn Suppression of Aragalaya” “Tyrannical governments and illegitimate leaders throughout history have led their societies to destruction” The Federation of University Teachers (FUTA) says that the Wickremasinghe-Rajapaksa … Continue reading →
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A View of Australia from ORCADIAN somewhere in the Orkney Islands
Orcadian, responding to an Email circulated by Thuppahi conveying the views of JOHN LANDER, circulated by Senaka Weeraratne John Lander, a former Australian ambassador, gives a most thoughtful analysis on the fictions of the China threat. Western diplomats need to return … Continue reading →
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Lionel Sirimane at 103: The Last of the Mohicans
Capt Elmo Jayawardena, … AN ESSAY that is borrowed from elanka = https://www.elanka.com.au/the-last-of-the-mohicans-by-capt-elmo-jayawardena/ Lionel Sirimane … navigator The lane down Nugegoda which is in the outskirts of Colombo, is named Mudaliar Avenue. Two left turns after that would bring you … Continue reading →
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The Damaging Japanese Raid on Trinco …. & Truths Stranger than Fiction
Chandani Kirinde talking to Somasiri Devendra, ex Sri Lanka Navy, in an article that is entitled “Bombers who became monks” The mystery behind the much talked about crash of a Japanese bomber aircraft into an oil tank during the 1942 … Continue reading →
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A Sturdy Lankan Student Protest Petition, 22 August 2022
A PETITION: Stop Labelling Student Protestors as Terrorists. 22 August 2022 We are a group of feminists writing to call urgent attention to the extra-constitutional attempts of the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to suppress dissent. Lacking a popular mandate, … Continue reading →
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Community Kitchens: New Charitable Avenue in Crisis Situation in Sri Lanka
News Item in Daily Mirror, 17 June 2022 Sri Lanka is seeing the first signs of some sections of the community thinking of whether the ‘neighbour’ had his or her meal. Just the other day ‘Sarvodaya’ together with ‘Singularity Sri … Continue reading →
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From The Eyes of a 103-Year Old Sri Lankan: 75th Year of Independence!
DL Sirimanne from Kohuwela has reached his century and proceeded another three years beyond. From the vantage of age, he is quite scathing in his concluding summary …. in the Sunday Observer 22 January 2023 … where the title is “A … Continue reading →
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