Discrimination against Non-Western laws
Recent events like Google’s complaint about
censorship in China, a British woman’s being prosecuted for having
illicit sex in Dubai, and a British man’s being convicted of drug
smuggling in China had received swift criticisms against the host
countries from both governments and mass media in the West.
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If you can’t add and subtract you must quit politics
Somawansa Amarasinghe, perhaps more than anyone
in the badly shaken Fonseka camp, demonstrated best the ridiculous
levels to which the Opposition has fallen when he said that the
election result was manipulated by a computer ‘gilmart’. It reminded
me of something that a pro-Mahinda person is supposed to have told
someone who campaigned for Sarath Fonseka: ‘you people will lose the
next election and will continue to lose until you learn some basic
mathematics’.
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A green Sri Lanka
Yesterday was World Wetlands Day. Tomorrow, we
celebrate our independence from colonial rule. Both are significant
and I believe are linked symbiotically to our nation’s well-being
and future. We got our right to self-rule back from the British 62
years ago but with relative ease, for we were offered it on a
platter following the success of the hard-fought Indian independence
struggle.
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