Presidential poll: peace, economy key issues
 

When 13 million Sri Lankan voters cast their ballots today, they will do so with clear choices before them and the sense that this is the closest contest for the top job since 1979, when the country adopted executive presidency.

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A tribute to Minister Kadirgamar assassinated three months ago :

Walking through corridors of culture with Lakshman Kadirgamar
 

The Sri Lankan society to him was not a complex one. His worldview was quite uncomplicated. Every one of its citizens had a right to live in dignity within this island and no one could deprive another of that sacred right. His philosophy of life, political philosophy and cultural philosophy, both, as a Sri Lankan and as un uncompromising internationalist, derived from this simple axiom.

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