The three-headed donkeys and Colombo's new Municipal Council
The law screwed them first. Then the Colombo
voters shot themselves in the foot. Because a single candidate did
not meet the age requirement an entire list of candidates of the UNP
was rejected as ineligible. The letter of the law prevailed over the
spirit of democracy, learned absurdity over simple commonsense.
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Deja vu - the UTHR(J) Report
The University Teachers for Human Rights -
Jaffna (UTHR(J)) is today more a pseudonym than the name of an
organisation, though once upon a time such an association did exist.
Its reputation lies in a series of reports on the ethnic war,
brought out at regular intervals, providing a balanced coverage of
human rights violations by whichever party.
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The meaning of the EU ban on the LTTE
The long-awaited ban of the EU proves, among
other things, that the internationalization of the separatist claim
in Sri Lanka, which was first mooted by S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, has
boomeranged on the Tamil separatists just at the time they need
international support to get over their hurdles.
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