TRAP, BLUNDER OR MODEL?

However fraught Sri Lanka’s external relations are, they have yet to hit the nadir that they did under President Jayewardene in the 1980s. The first ever resolution on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka adopted in Geneva by the Human Rights Commission was in March 1987, while the first decision, which it ‘recalls’ in the resolution, was in March 1984, as was reported in the Lanka Guardian at the time (Vol 9, No 23, April 1 1987, p18).

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Justice M T Akbar’s 69th death anniversary:

A Judge who was a man of God

The 69th death anniversary of Justice M T Akbar (KC) was observed on last Sunday. In fact, Justice Akbar was one of the most distinguished sons of the Malay Community. He was a descendent of a powerful and influential Malay family whose members held commission in the famous Ceylon Rifle Regiment.

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LIFE ABROAD – Part 25 :

Penny Pinchers

Two of the most hilarious experiences within a month of my arrival in London had slipped away from my memory, and thought of refreshing it in part 25. Shah was an Indian teacher who had come on a work permit to Britain and settled down with his family (two young children) in his mortgaged house. In his three bed room house he decided to rent two rooms on the first floor to students to recover his mortgage payments and all four of them cramped into the double bed room downstairs.

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