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    'No panic' over Indian remarks

    The Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry has called for a clarification over remarks by a senior Indian official that Sri Lanka should not buy weapons from Pakistan or China. Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Bahila told BBC Sandeshaya that the ministry is expecting a reply by Saturday over remarks by...
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    Thunder Showers & Sri Lank

    Living in a town adjacent to Colombo is just like living in it. On that fateful Wednesday morning, it started thundering at about 5 a.m., and by eight o' clock the entire Colombo area was inundated as the heavy down pour began to lash the capital of this tiny island nation...
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    How the Tigers Beat the Sri Lankan Government

    Today Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has grown as one of the leading terrorists outfit in the world. Though it operates from the jungle terrains of sprawling Vanni in the North of Sri Lanka, Velupillai Prabakaran has shot his way ruthlessly into the international lime light. In the beginning...
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    Thoppigala operation exclusive footage from Al-Jazeera

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfqimW3xdgg
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    Global Peace Index

    The Global Peace Index rankings: Some musings "Peace cannot be achieved through violence; it can only be attained through understanding." — Ralph Waldo Emerson The Global Peace Index (GPI) rankings have been released. Of 121 countries studied by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on the...
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    WHAT IS THE RIGHT ATTITUDE FOR MEDITATION?

    The most important thing when you are meditating is to have the right attitude. 1.When meditating: Don't focus too hard Don't control Don't try to create something Don't force or restrict yourself 2.Don't try to create anything But don't reject what is happening But as things happen or stop...
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    Adhi Poson Day!

    About a month ago The Vesak Full-Moon shone aglow Dana, Sila, Bhavana pervaded our thoughts To be good - the young and the old were taught, The lay-devotees in temples, so serene and calm Outside were pandals and dansalas to keep others warm, Didn't we try to be good, to do good? Yes, at least...
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    Sad news of little Pavithra

    A six-year-old girl, Pavithra, who was at Kalubowila Hospital with her mother, who had been seriously injured in Monday’s bomb blast at Ratmalana. Pavithra had been inquiring after her two brothers who were with her at the time of the explosion. It has now been found that one of her...
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    Mawbima owner under arrest

    Police in Sri Lanka are questioning businessman Tiran Alles who was arrested on alleged financial deals with the Tamil Tigers. The owner of the Standard Newspapers was arrested while being treated in Navaloka hospital. Former minister Sripathi Sooriyaarachchi, who was in the hospital told BBC...
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    OUR MOTHERLAND IN PERIL

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    20th anniversary of Arantalawa massacre by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists

    20th anniversary of Arantalawa massacre by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists 2 June 2000 - marks the thirteenth anniversary of the bloody massacre and the brutal mutilation of 33 young monks and their mentor Chief Priest Ven. Hegoda Indrasara at Arantalawa in Amparai, by the ruthless and...
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    JHU Proposals to APRC - Full text

    proposals to the all party representative committee for re-structuring the sri lankan state 1. introduction The present conflict in Sri Lanka has often been described as an "ethnic conflict". Both the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and the terrorist movement which operates under the name...
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    Welikanda Massacre by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists

    1st Anniversary of the Welikanda Massacre by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists The twelve workers who were killed and the two who escaped death in the alleged Tiger attack at Omadiyamadu in the Welikanda area were engaged in an irrigation canal construction project for the Mahaweli Authority...
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    Welikanda Massacre by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists

    1st Anniversary of the Welikanda Massacre by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists The twelve workers who were killed and the two who escaped death in the alleged Tiger attack at Omadiyamadu in the Welikanda area were engaged in an irrigation canal construction project for the Mahaweli Authority...
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    Good news for ladies - anti-rape female condom

    The adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" has taken on new meaning. And with the RapeX anti-rape female condom , that pound is coming out of somebody's johnson. RapeX is a female condom that damages a rapist's penis after penetration with sharp microscopic barbs that hook...
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    Sri Lankans Held With FAKE Credit Cards in India

    The Nagpada police arrested five people outside the City Centre Mall in Mumbai Central for possessing and using 30 fake credit cards. The accused include two Sri Lankan nationals. “We arrested Rajendran Subbarai, Imran Shaikh, Mohammad Salim Shaikh along with two Sri Lankans, Rajan Selvarajan...
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    Who is Winning Sri Lanka's War (BBC)

    A joke used to do the rounds in Colombo, during a previous phase of Sri Lanka's interminable civil war - that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) must surely have already been wiped out entirely, given the numbers of rebels the military said it was killing. The casualty figures...
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    Death Toll rises to 8 in the Terror bomb blast - Rathmalana

    Death toll of the Rathmalana bomb blast has risen to eight as one of the Special Task Force (STF) Personnel succumbed to his injuries at the National Hospital Colombo last night (28). Earlier, seven civilians, four males and three females died immediately after the indiscriminate bomb attack...
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    Bomb explosion reported at Rathmalana

    A bomb explosion has been occurred at the Belek Kade junction at Rathmalana short while ago. According to the available information the target of the bomb has been a STF vehicle. Commuters are advised to use alternative routes to avoid Rathmalana on the Colombo- Gall main road. More information...

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