SL on remarkable recovery track

The suggestion made in some quarters, that the LLRC report does not address accountability issues in the last phase of the conflict is without basis. What those who make this charge seem to be really saying is simply that the authors of the LLRC report have not arrived at the same conclusions that these elements who obsessively wish to see Sri Lanka being made a scapegoat had wanted them to. On the contrary, the LLRC report offers us detailed observations and recommendations on International Humanitarian Law issues relating to the final phase of the conflict,

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‘United we stand, divided we fall’

The ancient Greek storyteller Aesop told a tale in which a lion tried to attack four oxen, who would turn their tails to one another so that their horns faced the lion whichever way he approached them. However, the oxen quarrelled, and the lion attacked each separately in turn and overcame them.

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A poser to Karunanidhi:

Why not a referendum on ‘Kashmir-Eelam’?

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi's efforts to outdo his regional rival in communal politics - current Chief Minister Jayalalitha, and take the wind off the Indian Parliamentary delegation of Tamil representatives led by Opposition Leader Sushma Swaraj to Sri Lanka,

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