Endgame:
Reflections on
25th Anniversary of July 83
Reports from the North suggest that at long last
there seems an end in sight to LTTE terrorism. This has to be said
with circumspection, for the LTTE is a very capable outfit, its
resources reaching far and wide. It could pull several rabbits out
of its hat, and so it continues essential for the government to
guard against assaults on all sides, offensives in the north,
sniping in the East, large scale terror elsewhere, and also of
course its most potent weapon at this stage,
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Can we ever forget Black July - 1983?
The ugliest and the most barbarous event in the
post-independent Sri Lanka entered the pages of history 25 years
ago. Some people ask why these blackest events are being reminded
ritually in the month of July year after year.
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Economic and political utility of the SAARC Summit to Sri Lanka
The Colombo SAARC Summit would deliberate on the
issue of food security and power and energy. Both these issues are
most conspicuous to this developing region since the scarcity of
power/energy and food could have a negative impact not only on the
economies but on the populace as well.
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South Asia maps its own development destiny
When Pierre Trudeau, a former prime minister of
Canada, was once asked what it was like to share space with a
“giant” neighbour like the United States, he said the Canadians
always felt they were living next to a monstrous elephant.
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