Media freedom the truth

Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe was interviewed by Stephen Sackur for “BBC HARDtalk” on March 2, 2009. Following are excerpts of the interview

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Glance at the national problem

(Continued from yesterday’s Op-Ed)

The demand for self determination by Tamil leaders is based on the assumption that Tamils have a homeland in the North and East and can manage their affairs more effectively without interference and importantly, discrimination by the central Government.

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Return of Gareth Evans resurrection of terror

Once again the International Crisis Group has pronounced on Sri Lanka, bang on cue after the other usual suspects. Most negative of these was Human Rights Watch which is a specialist, along with ICG,

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Lingerie and liberation

Mailing pink chaddis, setting brasseries afire and more, all for the sake of of women’s rights. According to popular myth, women’s-libbers of the 1960s burned their brassieres as a sign of liberation - throwing off the yoke, so to speak, quite literally.

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