Defeating terrorism, safeguarding human rights

My Motherland suffered from almost three decades of destruction from terrorism. But now we have shown the world that it can be defeated. The FBI has stated that the LTTE is the world’s most dangerous and ruthless terrorist organization.

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On My Watch

Iniquitous duplicity of western policy

It was in the midst of the recent Afghan polls, which have become a worry to President Obama in convincing US citizens of the needs for the US to be more involved in Afghanistan, and indeed for the same reasons for Gordon Brown too,

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The Morning Inspection

More cuts on the ‘sudda within’

A piece I wrote about a week ago on the idea that we all nurture a ‘sudda’ (in other words ‘a colonial mentality’) resulted in me receiving several emails on the subject. Among them was one from a retired senior Police Officer (of a different generation and most definitely a different calibre), Gamini Gunawardena, a Sanskrit scholar and a batch-mate of my parents at Peradeniya.

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