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Oct 15 2009
King Rogerproxy sat on a THRONE… King Rogerproxy had a great FALL… All the Kings Brothers… And all the Kings Henchmen… Couldn’t put King Rogerproxy Together again… Oh dearee me... http://srilankalandoftheblind.blogspot.com/
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Sep 2 2009
George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” (Remember Lasantha?). One is also reminded of words of the 19th century poet Heinrich Heine who said, “Whenever books are burnt, men also, in the end are...
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Aug 25 2009
The passage given below is taken from George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984.” (Part 2, chapter 9) Given this background, one could infer, if one did not know it already, the general structure of Oceanic society. At the apex of the...
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Aug 10 2009
Initial results from the first post-war elections in northern Sri Lanka show the governing party has taken Jaffna, the region’s biggest city. But it suffered a surprise defeat in Vavuniya, the other town where polling took place, where a group...
Aug 6 2009
Exiled Sri Lankan journalists, artists and campaigners have formed a new organisation A new orgnisation formed by recently exiled media workers from Sri Lanka have expressed serious concern about 34 journalists and media workers who they say have been...
Jul 30 2009
The family of ‘BIG Brothers’ are taking over every aspect of our lives...they intimidated and killed journalists during the war...burnt a TV station and the Leader press...then they banned cellular phones from schools...now they have banned...
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Jul 29 2009
There lies an eerie silence, on the grassy fields pock marked with craters scattered amongst the broken trees and trampled flowers where, twenty thousand died because they were, in the wrong place at the wrong time. You are either with us or against...
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Jul 17 2009
The language inserted in the Department of State Appropriations bill S.1434 soon to be passed in the United States Senate, has virtually blocked U.S. Treasury Secretary from authorizing the projected $1.9B IMF loan to Sri Lanka, unless Secretary of...
Jul 17 2009
[TamilNet, Friday, 17 July 2009, 01:41 GMT] The language inserted in the Department of State Appropriations bill S.1434 soon to be passed in the United States Senate, has virtually blocked U.S. Treasury Secretary from authorizing the projected $1.9B IMF...
Jul 10 2009
Breaking Noise: Sources close to the Jackson family claim that Michael Jackson fully endorsed the ‘Mahinda Chinthanaya’ before his untimely death. Jackson had told reporters, “I’m BAD…I’m BAD…but the ‘Chinthanaya’ is...
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