External challenges to Sri Lanka
Governments the world over certainly do point to
external threats to shore up domestic power and legitimacy.
Sometimes these threats are real, sometimes not. Sometimes they are
real but exaggerated. Sometimes the threats could have been better
met with a different government or existing governments could
themselves have better met the threats had they conducted themselves
differently,
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Think on these things Dear President Sarkozy
In the field of medicine the name of Avicenna
figures prominently in European literature. His ‘The Canon of
Medicine’ was used as a standard text at Montpellier in France and
Louvain in Belgium as late as 1650 CE. Avicenna’s actual name was
Abd Allah Ibn Sina and he was a Muslim, Mr. President,
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PARALLEL Perspectives
Controversial Darusman report’s accountability concept blemished
Tigers carried out incessant shelling, bombing,
robbing of banks, kidnapping, conscripting children and the savagery
of suicide brigades murdering innocent civilians-all masterminded to
cajole Sri Lanka. Thus, the accountability demanded by the panel
became totally one-sided,
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