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Cricket Diplomacy vital for India-Pakistan Relations today
Allan Jacob, in Khaleej Times, 6 March 2019, with this title “Why India and Pakistan should try Cricket Diplomacy” In these shallow times, walking away from sport is seen as a tool of war.
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A Sob Story? Hodge in Batticaloa batting for the Nadeshalingam Family
Amanda Hodge in The Weekend Australian, 7/8th September 2019, where the title is “Mum’s fears for asylum son tainted by time with Tamil Tigers” On the scuffed green walls of Nadeshalingam Murugappan’s family home in eastern Sri Lanka, a maxim … Continue reading →
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Okkama Boru or Hocus Pocus in Sri Lanka — say Rajeewa and Gus
ONE: Rajeewa Jayaweera in Lanka: “Blackmail,” in Sunday Island, 9 June 2019 The death fast by a relatively insignificant nationalist Buddhist monk turned politician Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero MP, of the Jathika Hela Urumaya and UNP National List MP ended … Continue reading →
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SOFA — American Boots in Sri Lanka in ‘Soft Power’ Insertion
Daya Gamage, in Asian Tribune, 6 June 2018, with this title “U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy Report 2019: Military presence to secure ‘Homeland’.” Coinciding the Asia Security Summit – the Shangri-la Dialogue – in Singapore in which US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan … Continue reading →
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Barefaced Lies in the OHCHR REPORT from Geneva: Weerasekera’s Challenge in 2016
Dharshan Weerasekera, in Lankaweb, 15 January 2016, with this title “A rebuttal of the OHCHR Report, 1: Outright Lies” To my knowledge, the Government has to date not commissioned an official assessment of the OHCHR report (also called the OISL … Continue reading →
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Steam Engines and the Sea in Yesteryear
Sunil Wanigatunga, in Sunday Times, 24 JUne 2018, where the title is “Childhood Memories : A time of sea and steam rail engines” I was born in Mount Lavinia by the sea into the salt wind, sea sounds and rumbling … Continue reading →
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The Deep Imprint of Violence within Christianity and Islam
Lisette Thooft, 18 January 2015, in NieuwWij, where the title is “Karen Armstrong: “There is nothing in the Islam that is more violent than Christianity” .… https://www.nieuwwij.nl/english/karen-armstrong-nothing-islam-violent-christianity/ The terrorist attacks in Paris rendered her new book Fields of Blood. Religion … Continue reading →
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The Skirmish at Sainthamaruthu and the Suicidal Deaths of Some Wahhabi Jihadists -Jeyaraj as Investigative Journalist
DBS Jeyaraj, in Daily Mirror, 2 May 2019, where the title is “Battle of Sainthamaruthu Zahran’s family members dead in Sainthamaruthu skirmish between security forces and Islamic State terrorists” Sri Lanka’s security forces have engaged in many battles and armed … Continue reading →
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Calm Intelligence Required, not Islamophobia — says Uyan
Jayadeva Uyangoda, in Sunday Observer, 26 May 2019, where the title runs thus “Fight Terrorism. Avoid Islamophobia” Islamophobia is a term that gained currency in the 1980s in British English. It referred to prejudices against Islam and Muslim people that … Continue reading →
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Lord Tariq Ahmad’s Address to UNHRC at Geneva
Press Release, UK Mission to the United Nations Geneva 25 February 2019, ….https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lord-ahmad-addresses-40th-session-of-the-un-human-rights-council Mr President, (High Commissioner), Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is, as ever, an honour to address you today. In an ideal world, we would not need this … Continue reading →
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