Sri Lanka is still under threat - warns Defence Secretary
LTTE rump groups and pro-LTTE organizations are
trying hard to achieve their separatist ideology in the country :
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday
said that there is a possibility of the re-emergence of the LTTE in
Sri Lanka, as LTTE sympathizers abroad are still struggling to
achieve the LTTE’s separatist ideology in the country. He made this
observation speaking at a public lecture on ‘Future Challenges to
National Security in Sri Lanka’ organized by the Sri Lanka
Foundation Institute and the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon
Limited, at the auditorium of the Institute, Tuesday.
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Socio - economic scene - Sher Azad
Dogs, rabies and us
If nothing else, the recent controversy
surrounding the stray dog problem has led to a public airing of the
facts and statistics concerning the stray dog population of Sri
Lanka and the incidence of rabies. This is to be welcomed, as the
education of the community is an essential part of fighting disease
– apart from the desirability, in a democracy, of keeping the public
informed, in general.
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Al-Haj Dr T B Jayah and national unity
I am extremely privileged to deliver this
Oration on the 122nd birth anniversary of Alhaj Dr T B Jayah on the
invitation of the Conference of Sri Lankan Malays, whose President
Alhaj T K Azoor has devoted much of his energy and time in fostering
the concept of Bersatu (unity) Keikhalasan (sincerity) and
Pengorbanan (sacrifice) and also in perpetuating the memory of that
great National hero late Dr T B Jayah.
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‘Language policy - too important to be left to politicians’
I should begin by thanking Dr Ganesh Devy for
giving us yet another fascinating and stimulating day. It was a
wonderful experience to come today to the Adivasi Centre he has set
up, and to participate in the exhibition of photographs of their
ancestors that he has managed to bring together here, from archives
of the colonial period in Cambridge and Leipzig. Those two names
make clear the serious scholastic nature of the use made of those
photographs, but it is more heartening to see the human reactions of
people whose ties to their community are so important, when faced
with these early records of their lifestyles.
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