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Mahinda Rajapaksa:
A multi-faceted personality
The campaign begun with the capture of the
waterway was not brought to a halt. Our troops went on to liberate
the entire Eastern Province, including the Tiger fortress at
Thoppigala. There were prophets of doom who predicted that the Tiger
terrorists were too well entrenched at Thoppigala that to think of
dislodging them was a dream.
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Implications of unbridled financial growth
In 1972, the study ‘The Limits to Growth’ by the
Club of Rome gave the wake-up call that there are clear limits to
global economic growth. The authors, with the use of computer
modelling, drew some ominous conclusions. Within a time span of less
than 100 years, the world would run out of the non-renewable
resources like oil, leading to a collapse of the economic system
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Significance of local planning for national development
The culture of working together has the
potential of changing the attitudes of people, which is essential in
any progressive initiative. The participatory planning process gives
an opportunity to create this culture
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Iraq - six years after United States led
invasion:
Torturing and killing innocent civilians
Shortly after the United States invasion of Iraq
in March 2003 thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and teenagers
were indiscriminately herded into prison camps and subjected to the
most sadistic forms of torture imaginable.
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