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The LTTE and Its “Treasury” in Switzerland in Its Halcyon Days
DBS Jeyaraj, in his website column 15 December 2019, with this title “The Switzerland Connection in LTTE Fund Raising Activity” Recent events have focused the media spotlight on the Federal Republic of Switzerland known officially as the Swiss Confederation. The … Continue reading →
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US America and its ACSA, SOFA and MCC
Tamara Kunanayakam** says that “MCC, ACSA, SOFA with US are incompatible with international law” “[T]here is no friendship when nations are not equal, when one has to obey another and when one only dominates another.” …. Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime … Continue reading →
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“Goyi-Lansi”: Badinage founded on Class Differentiation laced with Ethnicity and Prejudice
Michael Roberts This article is inspired by Fabian Schokman of Moratuwa whose questioning comment led to a brief exchange involving Eardley Lieversz and myself. I will place these exchanges first before proceeding to address the context and implications of the … Continue reading →
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The Emergence of Salafi Jihadists in the Kattankudy Locality in the Eastern Province
Ameen Izzadeen and Abdullah Shahnawaz from Kattankudy, in Sunday Times, 28 April 2019, where the title reads “Lightning, thunder and a blast: On the trail of terror leader” April 17: A man walks into the Kattankudy police station to complain … Continue reading →
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Gandhara: Civilisation at the Crossroads
Sachitra Mahendra, Daily News, 20 March 2019, March 20, 2019, “A Talk at the Seminar on Buddhist and Gandhara Civilisation: The Cultural Nexus between Pakistan and Sri Lanka”
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A Misleading Picture of Crisis in Lanka pressed by Western Agencies
Palitha Kohona** … in IDN-InDepthNew , 06 November 2018, where the title is “The ‘Crisis in Lanka’ –Invented by the Western Media” The change of Government in Sri Lanka, following the unceremonious sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasingha by President … 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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Aussie News-Editor wants China kept out of the Pacific
Paul Maley, in The Australian,18 June 2018, where the title is “China can’t be allowed to expand it’s influence in Pacific” Australia cannot make the same mistakes in the Pacific that it made in the South China Sea, where Beijing … Continue reading →
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A Clinical Study of the LTTE and Pirapakaran
Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, being an article entitled ‘Terrorism’ or ‘Liberation’? Towards a distinction: A Case Study of the Armed Struggle of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)” in Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol.12/2, 2018 …. Abstract: This article based on extensive … Continue reading →
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Security Failures and Security Implications from the Jihadist Terror in Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday 2019
Jeffrey Gettleman, Mujib Mashal and Dharisha Bastians, in New York Times, 22 April 2019, where the title is “Sri Lanka Was Warned of Possible Attacks. Why Didn’t It Stop Them?“ The confidential security memo laid it all out: names, addresses, phone … Continue reading →
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