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Utter Constitutional darkness in Sri Lanka. A Sunday Times editorial falls prey
Darshanie Ratnawalli +++ This article is in the line of interpretation within difficult terrain presented by Gerald Peiris in Thuppahi yesterday as well as Peiris’s earlier intervention on this front elsewhere. Early signs suggest that both Peiris and Ratnawalli may … Continue reading →
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Tagged as 19th Ammendment, 33(2)(C), Jayampathy Wickramaratna, problematic drafting, SL Constitutional crisis, Sunday Times
Slash! American Twist for Imran Khan
Amanda Hodge, The Australian, 2 September 2018, where the title is “No Honeymoon for Khan” Most friends come bearing gifts when they visit, but the US-Pakistan relationship has never been a conventional friendship. Just four days before US Secretary of … Continue reading →
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Vorsicht! Looking for a Hitler in Sri Lanka Today
Tisaranee Gunasekara, in Sunday Observer, 12 August 2018, where the title is “On Doctors and Kings. An authoritarian wind is sweeping across Sri Lanka” The current yearning for the heavy hand of a strong leader is in tune with the … Continue reading →
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Tiger Insurgents caught in the Oddusuddan Locality in June 2018
D.B.S. Jeyaraj in Daily Mirror, 30 June 2018, where the title reads “Seizure of Tiger arsenal in North renews fears of an LTTE revival attempt” The 21km-long Puthukkudiyiruppu-Oddusuddan road progressing through the hinterland of North-Eastern Mullaitivu District, links Puthukkudiyiruppu on … Continue reading →
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Jihad on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka: The Killers and Their Pathways
Amarnath Amarasingam: “Terrorism on the Teardrop Island: Understanding the Easter 2019 Attacks in Sri Lanka,” Sentinal May/June 2019, Volume 12, Issue 5 …. Combating Terrorism Center at West Point …..https://ctc.usma.edu/terrorism-teardrop-island-understanding-easter-2019-attacks-sri-lanka/…. with highlighting empasis added by the Editor. Thuppahi Abstract: Over the course … Continue reading →
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Yellow Jacket Protests in France: The Power of Social Media and Populism
Jeremy Harding, review essay in London Review of Books, March 2019, with this title “Among the Gilets Jaunes” When they gathered at roads and roundabouts at the end of last year, the French government was caught off guard. Within a week … Continue reading →
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The Political Struggle in Sri Lanka: Three Pugilists … Hattotuwa … Chandraprema … Philips
ONE. Sanjana Hattotuwa: “Musical Chairs,” Island, 12 January 2019 The appointment of a new Army Chief of Staff. A fresh denial around the use of chemical weapons. The denunciation of a civil society protest against mainstream media supportive of the … Continue reading →
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Rivetting Data on the Jaffna Peninsula and Tamil Politics, 1929-1970s
Handy Perinbanayagam This is a reproduction of COMMENTS in a previous Thuppahi Item from 2012 — which presented an article by Rajan Philips in the Sunday Island of 26 February 2012. This unusual step is taken because the information therein: … Continue reading →
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Douma: Terror from Many Sides and Confusing Tales. Hypoxia not Gas?
Robert Fisk, in The Independent, 15 April 2018, with this title “The search for truth in the rubble of Douma – and one doctor’s doubts over the chemical attack” This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, … Continue reading →
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Terrorism within Pakistan Today
Zahid Hussain, in Dawn, 1 January 2017, where the title is “The Missing Element The attack on a Quetta church on Christmas Eve, days after the carnage at a Peshawar college, is a grim reminder of terrorism far from being contained despite the … Continue reading →
