Today is the International Day of the Disabled People:

Welcome regulations to make the 'disabled' equally able
 

THE biggest minority group in Sri Lanka is made up of a wide range of people with restricted (and impaired) mobility, for different reasons. It is estimated that the numbers here adds up to about 15% of our population.

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Confessions of an ageing guerrilla
 

VELUPILLAI Prabhakaran has foreclosed the possibility of reviving Sri Lanka's peace process. For years, analysts only guessed that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam used ceasefires, peace processes, and talks as tactics to further their cause of establishing a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka. Or as someone put it in Jaffna idiom, these were bus halts on the journey to Eelam.

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