Economic crimes in post-conflict SL

The thrust of what I want to say in the next few minutes is to highlight extremely briefly few challenges out of the several daunting ones posed by economic crime in post conflict Sri Lanka. It is universally recognized that economic and financial crimes, manifest in various dimensions and with deleterious effects which threaten the very foundation of any civilized society and thus must be eliminated.

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Not jumping the gun

On Thursday, hundreds of monks demonstrated outside the High Commission of Bangladesh in Colombo in protest at the violent attacks on the Buddhist community in the area of Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh.

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Geneva endorses Sri Lankan success:

Laying to rest the ghost of IDP horror

The recent closure of Menik Farm, the main IDP village, signaled a major success in Sri Lanka’s handling of the most pressing post-conflict issue. It has given the lie to all those sceptics and peddlers of misinformation about the actual treatment of the IDPs from the time the armed conflict came to an end in May 2009.

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