Key to unlocking value of SAFTA
When SAARC Heads of Government meet in a few days
in Sri Lanka they will do so at a time of slowing growth in the US
and Europe and South Asia’s economies remain amongst the fastest
growing in the world despite downward pressure.
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Duraiappah’s murder: Turning point in conflict
This month recalls a dark event - the political
murder 33 years ago that sparked off a chain of events culminating
in our current crisis. It is the assassination of Jaffna’s SLFP
Mayor Alfred Duraiappah on July 27, 1975 - a seminal event marking
the onset the Northern insurgency. It was also the first
assassination of a Sri Lankan Tamil political figure.
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Military onslaught: LTTE looking for a way out
On July 22, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
announced that it would observe a unilateral ceasefire with the
forthcoming summit of the South Asian Association for Regional
Co-operation in Colombo from July 26 to August 4.
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The beginning of the Cuban revolution
The assault on the Moncada Garrison in Santiago
de Cuba on July 26, 1953, by a group led by Fidel Castro was an
event that the world was unaware of. Cuban newspapers - with just
one exception - noted that the young Cuban lawyer Fidel Castro
together with a contingent of young men, had assaulted the country’s
second military fortress, with the aim of reverting the situation of
Cuba;
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