For whose child do the bells toll?
Children have become direct agents of war,
throughout the world. These children are often subjected to
appalling brutality and are denied their childhood and innocence.
They are abducted, recruited and forced to bear arms and do tasks
such as frontline combat, join suicide missions, serve as human mine
detectors and spying.
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Who was Senaka Bibile?: Will his drugs legacy survive the new
tendencies in the industry?
Seneka Bibile, pharmacologist, was the founder
of Sri Lanka's drug policy , which was used as a model for
development of policies based on rational pharmaceutical use in
other countries as well by the WHO,UNCTAD and the Non Aligned
Movement. He has been called the 'greatest medical benefactor of
humanity that Sri Lanka has hitherto produced'.
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Alcohol and smoking ban - A reply: Civilized drinks are worse
than Kasippu
Todate there is not a single case of bronchial
cancer or heart attack reported in Sri Lankan medical literature due
to vehicle fumes or industrial fumes. As mentioned earlier,
cigarette, beedi pipe and cigar smoking can be completely given up
by those who smoke, unlike vehicle fumes which can only be reduced.
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