‘Delivering the truth’ A polls watch with a difference
The National Polls Observations Centre is a polls
watch with a difference. At a time when the credibility of such
organizations are open to question due to foreign funding and hidden
agenda, the NPOC was started by a group of professionals with their
own funding without depending on foreign grants to ensure full
transparency and independence.
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Another ‘bailout plan’
The civil war in Sri Lanka is a clear example of
political collapse. Both Sinhala and Tamil polities lost their ‘good
politics’ decades ago and hence we have the present war. However,
after 1987 with the India-mediated peace proves, mainstream Sinhala
political forces were compelled to rediscover the political path
that had been negated.
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On a hallowed ground
THE great achievement of Martin Wickramasinghe
is that he helped us look back without false pride and harmful
nostalgia. Classical works of the past which had rested securely and
unchallenged on the top shelf of our literary hierarchy came under
the incisive and clinical scrutiny of Wickramasinghe’s critical gaze
to be pulled down as unimaginative
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On My Watch
Tigers play the last human trump
It is time to see for how long more the LTTE
will be able to hold back the civilians within its ever shrinking
territory, and whether they will heed the calls by all who believe
in the sanctity of human life to have mercy on those people, or use
them as bloody pawns in the escape plans for its beleaguered leaders
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Political solution The next target
A Sri Lankan military victory over the LTTE is
necessary for any chance of peace coming to fruition in Sri Lanka.
Only with the LTTE gone as a military force from the island nation
does Sri Lanka in general and Sri Lankan Tamils in particular have a
chance for a peaceful and prosperous future.
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