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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jun 16, 2008
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The Kattankudi Jamiyyathul Ulama had requested all the newly elected Muslim members of the Eastern Provincial Council to boycott its inaugural session to highlight the demand of strengthening security of the Muslim community in the east. Ethnic violence has flared in the east between the Tamil...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jun 9, 2008
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The IDPs from Trincomalee District are scattered, in the Ampara District. There are few from the Mannar District too. Some are willing to return to their original places, some do not. These families prefer to live here. Some have bought small pieces of lands. These families need to be assisted...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jun 3, 2008
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After one cease-fire, two formal peace talks, three wars, we wade deeper into Eelam war IV, and we’re back at square one. Or is it we never left?
Over 2000 deaths post-2006. Post-tsunami, over 700,000 refugees upon a decimated Northeast bloated with bone and shades of displacement....... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: May 21, 2008
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As the much hard-sold elections to the Eastern Provincial Council came to an unseemly and acrimonious conclusion last week, it was already becoming abundantly clear that its political and constitutional ramifications may well turn out to be anything other than what the government’s...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Apr 19, 2008
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Image courtesy Mannar Diocese website
The sacred shrine of Madhu is being violated.
What right has the LTTE to encroach on the Pilgrim Reservation Area gazetted under the Pilgrimage Ordinance in 1982? The LTTE has violated International Conventions relating to War in...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Mar 29, 2008
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By K. Ratnam
It is as if the city of Batticaloa has become a red hot furnace due to the scorching sun. Yet at high noon there is a pall of gloom that hangs over the city. People who have come to attend to their requirements are wandering about hither and thither in a mighty hurry to get back...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Mar 30, 2008
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This video clip contains a brief interview with A.L Thavam – Chairperson of Akkaraipattu Pradeshiya Saba (local government).
It is presented here as is, without analysis or comment.
Summary of the interview.
Feels that Batticoloa election was successful because of the lack...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Mar 24, 2008
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There is much hype by the government spokesmen about how they held an election in the East for local authorities and restored democracy. Now the government is holding a Provincial Council election. They argue that however imperfect the democracy it is a step in the right direction. But how valid...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Feb 21, 2008
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“Return my husband you abducted before you ask for my vote”
(Plea to the TMVP-UPFA, from a Batticaloa women)
The government had claimed it had “liberated” the East, completed a 180 days development program and had decided to hold elections as if to prove all is well there. ...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Feb 4, 2008
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In the backdrop of a country at war and democracy that’s hostage to the whim and fancy of a President and his coterie of murderous brutes, it’s hard to be even cautiously optimistic about the upcoming elections in the East. For the average voters in the South however, the fact that they are...... [view]
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Posted By: yajitha
Posted On: Jan 17, 2008
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By Bhumi. Based on field trip from 10th – 14th December 2007.
Introduction
The East is ‘liberated’. It has been so since last June when the government requested it to be celebrated with ‘patriotic joy’. Over 300,000 civilians were displaced in the process and a majority...... [view]
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