Towards a national land policy
Popular actor turned politician Land and Land
Development Minister Jeewan Kumaranatunga in an interview with the
Daily News expressed his views on the current political situation
and the measures taken by his Ministry to settle the land problems
of the people.
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Help Sri Lanka rebuild
Sri Lankan Americans appeal to US Secretary of
State
A group of Sri Lankan Americans have written to
US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton replying to some of her
comments regarding the current situation in Sri Lanka. We reproduce
below without comment the contents of the letter sent by them
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Dien Bien Phu and the end of LTTE
Sri Lanka’s newspaper ‘war’ correspondents and a
few retired military souls reporting on the 30 year counter
terrorist conflict were wont to induce a veneer of military
sophistication to their ‘front line’ news as well as their egos by
comparisons with famous battles not simply in any war but in World
Wars. So Somme, Stalingrad, Gallipolli, Dunkirk, Berlin, Dresden,
Hiroshima were visited with great vigour if not desperation.
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Corporate monopoly of science
Anyone growing GM crops has to buy seeds from
the company every year, which is a problem for all farmers, but
especially for those in the Third World; as Canadian farmer Percy
Schmeiser’s epic battle with Monsanto so clearly brings home to us.
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