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Parliamentary Election campaign:
UPFA kicks off from Kandy
The large scale election campaign of the United
People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) will commence on March 19 in Kandy
with a mass rally under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s patronage,
Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said.
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President unveils Sri Anandaramaya pinnacle in Kalutara
President Mahinda Rajapaksa will ceremonially
unveil the pinnacle of the newly constructed cetiya at Sri
Anandaramaya in Maha Heenatiyangala village in Kalutara South today.
The statue made out of rock, five feet in height and in Abaya and
Kataka mudra is surrounded by four stone pillars representing four
noble truths of worldly life leading to sorrow.
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State Department Human Rights report on Sri
Lanka:
Wanting in credibility
The Disaster Management and Human Rights
Ministry states that the US State Department’s 2009 Country Report
on Human Rights Practices pertaining to Sri Lanka was a conflation
of historical background, repetition of statements in earlier
reports, unverified assertions and falls short of the high standards
that the State Department professes to uphold.
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