India's Sri Lanka policy - a projection
THERE are other factors that India needs to bear
in mind. If India were to turn a Nelsonian eye to LTTE arms
smuggling through Indian waters, it would expand the area of
operations of the Sea Tigers and allow the LTTE to rebuild its
infrastructure in Tamil Nadu; an infrastructure which over the
medium and long term, would support militant or irredentist
sentiment.
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Allan Rock's Marijuana Garden
It is amazing. With every Cabinet post, Allan
Rock brings down a new series of disasters. He is, in fact, disaster
personified. It is difficult to understand why this is happening,
since he seems to be a perfectly intelligent person. He left behind
a successful legal career when he first ran for Parliament in 1993.
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New romance with an old enemy
WICKREMATUNGA certainly could have done a better
job than Sebastian, but he treats her with some oily TLC. Of course,
he was egging her on to make use of her to attack President Mahinda
Rajapaksa - his latest bete noir. Wickrematunga's plans of making
use of his other pet Ranil Wickremesinghe to hammer Rajapaksa went
awry with the joint SLFP-UNP MoU.
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Screaming A-Niners beat the genocidal drums of the Tigers
As for the question of genocide, speaking in
Paris two days ago, the Tamil leader Anandasangaree has appealed to
the international community to help liberate the Tamils from the
Tigers. If there is indeed genocide against the Tamils in Sri Lanka,
the Tigers are at the forefront of this deadly quest.
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