Lalith Athulathmudali:

A leader snuffed out in his prime

Lalith William Samarasekera Athulathmudali, by which name he mostly preferred to be recognised, was to show to the world, that he not only inherited his blessings in life from his beloved father, but a highly esteemed, respectable, very intelligent assortment of genes from his much loved mother also.

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Countering terrorism

Jerrold Post's "The Mind of the Terrorist: The Psychology of Terrorism from the IRA to Al-Qaeda" provides a framework for understanding modern-day terrorism's psychological mindset.

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Jaffna Diary - B. Muralidhar Reddy - Frontline

An outsider's experience:

The military believe the pact nullified all the gains made by them from 1995 to February 2002. "During the period of the CFA from February 2002 to August 2005, there were about 2,032 LTTE cadre moving freely in the Jaffna peninsula. This led to disruption in the civil administration," he bemoaned.

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