Ethnic conflict:

A poser to two main candidates

ANYONE worth his or her salt must speak the truth that what the Tigers want is a racially exclusive nation only for Tamils who are about 15 pc of the population. Their Eelam is to encompass 45 pc of the land mass and 60 pc of the coastal resources of a small overpopulated island nation with scarce resources. Why cant the NGO appeasers see this for what it really is? WHAT do the Tigers want?

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'Poojavaliya' as an enhancement of the Buddha's Word

CHARACTERISTICALLY with no fanfare of any sort, the Department of Cultural Affairs has brought out yet another part of its very valuable English translation of the Poojavaliya - a Sinhala classic of the 13th century - in its translation project initiated in 2000 with the publication of Part I i.e. Chapters I to VII.

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