Unprofessionalism revisited
Channel 4 News, Sri Lanka and ‘Fernando’:
A very different picture of the Sri Lankan Army
and its behaviour on the ground in the last few weeks and days of
the war is provided by Gordon Weiss, a former UN spokesman in Sri
Lanka, and author of ‘The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last
Days of the Tamil Tigers’, a controversial, anti-government, view of
the last few months of the war. Weiss is clearly no friend of the
government. Weiss has been presented by Channel 4 as a credible
commentator on Sri Lanka, and especially the final phase of the war,
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2011 – The Consolidation of Peace
The achievements already reached in road
construction have placed President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a new niche
in history and the biggest road builder the country has had. He
shares this honour with King Mahasen who is acknowledged as the
greatest tank builder in the history of Sri Lanka. With all this
success, as the year draws to a close there is the further
encouraging news that the government has taken steps to widen and
reconstruct 46 bridges on the national road network,
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The champion of the underdog
From the very inception of my career in politics
my sole intention was to propagate equality in society. The
teachings of eminent Left leaders such as Vivienne Gunawardana, Dr.
Colvin R de Silva, DG William, Dr SA Wickramasinghe and LW Panditha,
at that time inspired me. I deeply believed that, following Left
politics was the right path to convert the society into a good and a
righteous one. I was the first Muslim leader who joined Left
politics in the country,
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