Challenges for democracy - a regional perspective

I am grateful to the Pakistan Liberal Forum for having invited me to speak today at your seminar on 'Challenges for Democracy in the upcoming Elections'. Though you have suggested I present a regional perspective,

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The difference of ten years

The debacle suffered by the main Opposition United National Party (UNP) at the recent elections to the Eastern, North Central and Sabaragamuwa Provincial Councils must surely cause some soul-searching among its leading members.

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‘Military victory followed by forgiveness and peacemaking’

On the visit of President Rajapaksa to India this week, both the Union Government and the Madhya Pradesh state government have made it clear they are not ready to give in to the threats of the anti-Rajapaksa lobbies in the country, particularly in Tamil Nadu. President Rajapaksa’s meetings with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have already taken place as scheduled in a spirit of warmth and cordiality. The Madhya Pradesh government has stopped the Vaiko-led demonstrators who sought to carry out protests in that State, at the border between Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh,

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D B Wijetunga’s fourth death anniversary:

Elected President by unanimous decision of Parliament

The fourth death anniversary of late President D B Wijetunga fell on September 20, 2012. Dingiri Banda Wijetunga was born on February 15, 1922 to a middle-class Sinhala Buddhist family living on the outskirts of the then Udunuwara electorate.

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