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An individual's rights flow not from an arcane institution, nor from God, but from an instinctive recognition of the various needs of that person not to be wronged. Today's world is full of wrongs and there is no reason to believe that tomorrow is going to get any better.

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Ranil gets bloody hampers from the LTTE
 

It's obviously festive time for the UNP and its leader. The LTTE is giving him festive hampers of those killed, for celebration. Each new killing of troops pushes back the threat to his leadership of the party, giving him the chance to position himself the person whose dire warnings of imminent war were ignored by the majority of those who polled.

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The body of Abu Akeel, a Sunni Arab, lies in a Baghdad morgue in this undated photo. His relatives, who provided the photograph, said he was kidnapped, tortured and killed by Shi’ite militiamen linked to the government. As U.S. and Iraqi officials speak of how Iraqi forces have improved after training, Sunnis are focused on what they say are widespread abuses at the hands of Shi’ite government forces. The U.S.-backed Iraqi government, which promised to deliver human rights after decades of iron-fisted rule under Saddam Hussein, has denied the accusations. REUTERS


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